I can see that brother Peter has got his eye upon her, and I don't know how she would take the "seraphim" story.' 'If she begins any of her dignified impertinence here,' he answered, 'I intend to steer her into a conversation with Charlotte, Lady G----.' Courthope had a turkey to carve.

He was fain to turn from the guests to ask advice as to its anatomy of Madge, who was carving a ham and assuring Mr.Woodhouse that it was 'thrice baked, exactly as Serle would have done it.' 'Stupid!--it was apples that were baked,' whispered Eliz.
'You see,' said Madge, when she had told him how to begin upon the turkey, 'we wondered very much what a dinner of "two full courses" might be, and where the "corner dishes" were to be set.

We did not quite know--do you ?' 'You must not have asides that are not about the people,' cried Eliz intensely.

'Catherine Moreland's mother is talking common sense to General Tilney and Sir Walter Eliot, and there'll be no end of a row in a minute if you don't divert their attention.' Eliz had more than once to call the other two to account for talking privately adown the long table.
'What a magnificent ham!' he exclaimed.

'Do you keep pigs ?' Madge had a frank way of giving family details.