I shall hardly know myself in a blue dress and a pink satin cloak." Edmund could not answer him.

In a few minutes Mr.Bertram was called out of the room to satisfy some doubts of the carpenter; and being accompanied by Mr.Yates, and followed soon afterwards by Mr.Rushworth, Edmund almost immediately took the opportunity of saying, "I cannot, before Mr.Yates, speak what I feel as to this play, without reflecting on his friends at Ecclesford; but I must now, my dear Maria, tell _you_, that I think it exceedingly unfit for private representation, and that I hope you will give it up.

I cannot but suppose you _will_ when you have read it carefully over.

Read only the first act aloud to either your mother or aunt, and see how you can approve it.

It will not be necessary to send you to your _father's_ judgment, I am convinced." "We see things very differently," cried Maria.