“Well,if there's nothing else you ladies need in the library, Sophie, would you care to accompany me on a walk about the grounds?"I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he'd just escaped from a Jane Austen novel.”

“I wondered if there were ever times when Dad didn't sound like he escaped from a Jane Austen novel.”

“I thought it was bad when they made me wear this Jane Austen–suitor outfit, complete with cravat. But you! You look like you just escaped the set of Braveheart.”

“Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”

“Even when there were good wars to write about, writers such as Jane Austen wrote novels concerning marriage. They usually went like this:'You're being a real jerk.''Sorry about that. I was secretly helping you.''Oh, you're wonderful! And you have so much money! You're my new favorite cousin!''Let's get married."The End.”