Pride and Prejudice

During this past week, my sister Clara and I were hanging out together in the livingroom. We played a game of scrabble, read some books, and chatted on the couches a while until the brilliant idea came upon us to watch the movie “Pride and Prejudice” based on one of Jane Austen’s novels. Afterwards we immediately dressed up and reenacted some of the scenes only to double over in peals of laughter. Sometimes Clara was Mr. Darcy while I was Mr. Bingley, and at other times we strutted about like the young ladies at a ball. The following quote (when recited with the proper amount of despair and resignation) we found especially funny. It is important to know that Mr. Collins is rather unattractive and dull much to Mr. Bennet’s disgust, but has a steady—rather large—income much to Mrs. Bennet’s delight.
"An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do." ---Mr. Bennet

---Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

So now I am reading one of the few Jane Austen books I have yet to read: Northanger Abbey.

"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." --Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey