Austen Said:

"We see things very differently,"

"I am perfectly acquainted with the play, I assure you; and with a very few omissions, and so forth, which will be made, of course, I can see nothing objectionable in it; and I am not the only young woman you find who thinks it very fit for private representation."

"I am much obliged to you, Edmund; you mean very well, I am sure: but I still think you see things too strongly; and I really cannot undertake to harangue all the rest upon a subject of this kind. There would be the greatest indecorum, I think."

"If I were to decline the part,"

"Julia would certainly take it."

"Oh! she might think the difference between us— the difference in our situations —that she need not be so scrupulous as I might feel necessary. I am sure she would argue so. No; you must excuse me; I cannot retract my consent; it is too far settled, everybody would be so disappointed, Tom would be quite angry; and if we are so very nice, we shall never act anything."

"I had my choice of the parts,"

"but I thought I should like the Count best, though I do not much relish the finery I am to have."

"The Count has two-and-forty speeches,"

"which is no trifle."

"If you are afraid of half a dozen speeches,"

"what would you do with such a part as mine? I have forty-two to learn."

"the Mansfield theatricals would enliven the whole neighbourhood exceedingly,"

"Do you think there is anything so very fine in all this? For the life and soul of me, I cannot admire him; and, between ourselves, to see such an undersized, little, mean-looking man, set up for a fine actor, is very ridiculous in my opinion."

"And I do believe she can say every word of it,"

"for she could put Mrs. Grant right the other day in twenty places. Fanny, I am sure you know the part."

"My father is come! He is in the hall at this moment."

"I need not be afraid of appearing before him."

"Shall I go too? Had not I better go too? Will not it be right for me to go too?"

"It is time to think of our visitors,"

"Where did you leave Miss Crawford, Fanny?"

"I do not say he is not gentleman-like, considering; but you should tell your father he is not above five feet eight, or he will be expecting a well-looking man."

"If I must say what I think,"

"in my opinion it is very disagreeable to be always rehearsing. It is having too much of a good thing. I am not so fond of acting as I was at first. I think we are a great deal better employed, sitting comfortably here among ourselves, and doing nothing."

"The Thrush is gone out of harbour, please sir, and one of the officers has been here to—"