Am I wrong-or were you hasty in what you said? Miss Austen is only shrewd and observant. These observations will probably irritate you, but I shall run the risk. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face a carefully-fenced, highly cultivated garden with neat borders and delicate flowers-but no glance of a bright vivid physiognomy-no open country-no fresh air-no blue hill-no bonny beck. I had not seen Pride & Prejudice till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book and studied it. What induced you to say that you would rather have written Pride & Prejudice or Tom Jones than any of the Waverly Novels? Why do you like Miss Austen so very much? I am puzzled on that point.
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