Mansfield Park -- Jane Austen Chapter One tweets.
Just started Mansfield Park. about 17 hours ago from web
"But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them." Hee! about 17 hours ago from web
Uh oh: "But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family..." about 14 hours ago from web
"...and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marines, without education, fortune, or connections, did it very thoroughly." Again, uh oh. about 14 hours ago from web
Mrs. Norris is kind of a troublemaker. http://tinyurl.com/3hr5a7 about 14 hours ago from web
Rats. Must put down book, as Alias is on. (First season, disc three. Yes, this is my first time through.) about 14 hours ago from web
Will Tippin is a tool. about 14 hours ago from web
"...an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor..." My uh-ohs continue. 43 minutes ago from web
"...such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else..." Heh. http://tinyurl.com/3hr5a7 41 minutes ago from web
Gosh. She's preparing for her ninth lying-in, and her oldest is ten? She's spent most of the last ten years pregnant! 39 minutes ago from web
'What if they were among them to undertake the care of her eldest daughter, a girl now nine years old...?" Ah, yes. 35 minutes ago from web
Sir Thomas is a bit more hesitant about taking the girl in than the ladies are... 34 minutes ago from web
"You are thinking of your sons - but do not you know that of all things upon earth that is the least likely to happen;..." 31 minutes ago from web
"...brought up, as they would be, always together like brothers and sisters? It is morally impossible." Oh, I doubt it. 31 minutes ago from web
"...though I could never feel for this little girl the hundredth part of the regard I bear your own dear children..." That bodes well. 28 minutes ago from web
"My own trouble, you know, I never regard." HA! People never say that if it's actually true. 26 minutes ago from web
"...she knew quite as well how to save her own as to spend that of her friends." Mrs. Norris is TERRIBLE!! (Yet so entertaining.) 23 minutes ago from web
Awesome. She's basically taking credit for adopting a child but is now saying, "Oh, no, I couldn't possibly actually TAKE CARE of her!" 21 minutes ago from web
Oh, wow. This is going to be the most unhappy childhood ever, isn't it? "...how to preserve in the minds of my daughters the..." 18 minutes ago from web
"...consciousness of what they are, without making them think too lowly of their cousin; and how, without depressing her spirits too far,..." 17 minutes ago from web
"...make her remember that she is not a Miss Bertram." Why even take her in? 17 minutes ago from web
Oh, good. Now he's approving that his daughters carry the "smallest degree of arrogance" towards their cousin. 16 minutes ago from web
End of Chapter One. No slow start for our Miss Austen. I can't believe that I am already so revved about the characters and story! 11 minutes ago from web