It has been 9 years since I first read Sense and Sensibility. I had forgotten how rotten Col. Brandon's father and brother were. The adaptation I most often watch, S&S2, alters the story here. Mrs. Jennings tells the first part of Col. Brandon's sad story concerning Eliza Williams but Emma Thompson chose to make Eliza poor, not rich. She also omitted her loveless marriage to the elder brother. I was shocked to read this passage. I now consider Col. Brandon's father and brother to be worse than John Dashwood and possibly in the same territory as Austen's rogues gallery.