I hear an echo
Posted by Laraine on May 20, 1998 at 11:28:26:
In response to The Visit, written by Kate on May 17, 1998 at 14:16:10
I hear the music of Austen's tone in these passages:
Scene the 2d.
STANLY & MISS FITZGERALD, discovered.
...
- STANLY.
- Miss Hampton & her Cousin are both Handsome,
are they not?- MISS F.
- Miss Willoughby is extreamly so. Miss Hampton is a fine Girl, but not equal to her.
- STANLY.
- Is not your Brother attached to the Latter?.
- MISS F.
- He admires her, I know, but I beleive nothing more. Indeed I have heard him say that she was the most beautifull, pleasing, & amiable Girl in the world, & that of all others he should prefer her for his Wife. But it never went any farther, I'm certain.
- STANLY.
- And yet my Cousin never says a thing he does not mean.
- MISS F.
- Never. From his Cradle he has always been a strict adherent to Truth
And then there's the part in italics below:
"It has been a very agreeable day," said Miss Bennet to Elizabeth. "The party seemed so well selected, so suitable one with the other. I hope we may often meet again."Elizabeth smiled.
"Lizzy, you must not do so. You must not suspect me. It mortifies me. I assure you that I have now learnt to enjoy his conversation as an agreeable and sensible young man, without having a wish beyond it. I am perfectly satisfied, from what his manners now are, that he never had any design of engaging my affection. It is only that he is blessed with greater sweetness of address, and a stronger desire of generally pleasing, than any other man."
"You are very cruel," said her sister, "you will not let me smile, and are provoking me to it every moment."
"How hard it is in some cases to be believed!"
"And how impossible in others!"
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