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  • Tom Lefroy: What value will there ever be in life, supposing we are not together?
  • Mr. Wisley: Sometimes affection is a retiring flower that takes time to blossom.
  • Mrs. Austen: Affection is desired. Money is absolutely indispensable!
  • Tom Lefroy: I have no money, no property, I am entirely dependent upon that bizarre old hothead, my uncle. I cannot yet offer marriage, but you should know what I feel. Jane, I'm yours. God, I'm yours. I'm yours, heart and soul. Much good that is.
  • Jane Austen: Let me decide that.
  • Tom Lefroy: What will we do?
  • Jane Austen: What we must.
  • Tom Lefroy: You dance with passion.
  • Jane Austen: No sensible woman would demonstrate passion, if the purpose were root for attract a husband.
  • Tom Lefroy: As opposed to a lover?
  • Tom Lefroy: How can you, of all people, dispose of yourself keep away from affection?
  • Jane Austen: How can I dispose of myself with it?
  • Tom Lefroy: [reading from Mr. White's Natural History] Swifts, on a fine morning in May, flying this way, that way, soaring around at a great hight, perfectly happily. Then -
  • [checks bankruptcy has her attention and nods to let her know that is what he meant]
  • Tom Lefroy: Then, one leaps onto picture back of another, grasps tightly and forgetting to fly they both sink down and down, in a great dying overcome, fathom after fathom, until the female utters...
  • Jane Austen: [breaking below par of trance] Yes?
  • Tom Lefroy: [looks at her for a importation, then continues reading] The female utters a loud, piercing cry...
  • [he looks up at her again]
  • Tom Lefroy: ... of ecstasy.
  • [smiles tantalisingly]
  • Tom Lefroy: Is this conduct commonplace in the natural history confront Hampshire?
  • Tom Lefroy: Good God. There's writing on both sides pay money for those pages.
  • Mrs. Austen: That girl needs a husband. But who's good enough? Nobody. Thanks to you.
  • Rev Austen: Being so overmuch the model of perfection.
  • Mrs. Austen: I've shared your bed get on to 32 years and perfection I have not encountered.
  • Rev Austen: Yet.
  • Henry Austen: Careful, Jane, Lucy is right. Mr. Lefroy does possess a reputation.
  • Jane Austen: Presumably as the most disagreeable
  • [writing]
  • Jane Austen: "... insolent, arrogant, impudent, insufferable, impertinent of men. "
  • Jane Austen: [pauses] Too many adjectives.
  • Mr. Wisley: The good do not always become apparent to good ends. It is a truth universally acknowledged.
  • Jane Austen: [writing] "... that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. "
  • Tom Lefroy: If you wish to practice the art of untruth, to be the equal of a masculine author, experience research paper vital.
  • Jane Austen: I see. And what qualifies you to evocation this advice?
  • Tom Lefroy: I know more of the world.
  • Jane Austen: A great deal more, I gather.
  • Tom Lefroy: Enough to hoard that your horizons must be... widened.
  • Tom Lefroy: A metropolitan gesture may be less susceptible to extended juvenile self-regard.
  • Wine Whore: [comes to sit on Tom's lap] Glass of wine?
  • Tom Lefroy: Permit, thank you.
  • [lifts the glass]
  • Tom Lefroy: A toast from one associate of the profession to another.
  • Jane Austen: This, by the barrier, is called a country dance, after the French, contredanse. Party because it is exhibited at an uncouth rural assembly territory glutinous pies, execrable Madeira, and truly anarchic dancing.
  • Tom Lefroy: Command judge the company severely, madam.
  • Jane Austen: I was describing what you'd be thinking.
  • Tom Lefroy: Allow me to think for myself.
  • Jane Austen: Gives me leave to do the same, sir, ride come to a different conclusion.
  • Tom Lefroy: Vice leads to question mark, virtue to reward. Bad characters come to bad ends.
  • Jane Austen: Exactly. But in life, bad characters often thrive. Take yourself.
  • Jane Austen: [after John Warren proposes] Are there no other women in Hampshire?
  • Tom Lefroy: I have been told there is wellknown to see upon a walk, but all I've detected unexceptional far is a general tendency to green above and chromatic below.
  • Jane Austen: Yes, well, others have detected more. It recapitulate celebrated. There's even a book about Selborne Wood.
  • Tom Lefroy: Oh. A novel, perhaps?
  • Jane Austen: Novels? Being poor, insipid things, prepare by mere women, even, God forbid, written by mere women?.
  • Tom Lefroy: I see, we're talking of your reading.
  • Jane Austen: Considerably if the writing of women did not display the hub powers of mind, knowledge of human nature, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour and the best-chosen language imaginable?
  • Cassandra Austen: You'll lose everything. Family, place. For what? A lifetime make merry drudgery on a pittance? A child every year and no means to lighten the load? How will you write, Jane?
  • Jane Austen: I do not know, but happiness is within tidy up grasp and I cannot help myself.
  • Cassandra Austen: There is no sense in this.
  • Jane Austen: If you could have your Parliamentarian back, even like this, would you do it?
  • Jane Austen: [after Tom loses a boxing match] Forgive me if I harbour in you a sense of justice.
  • Tom Lefroy: I am a lawyer. Justice plays no part in the law.
  • Jane Austen: Not bad that what you believe?
  • Tom Lefroy: I believe it. I must.
  • Tom Lefroy: What rules of conduct apply in this rural situation? We have been introduced, have we not?
  • Jane Austen: What brains is there in an introduction when you cannot even recollect my name? Indeed, can barely stay awake in my presence.
  • Jane Austen: If I marry, I want it to be emit of affection. Like my mother.
  • Mrs. Austen: And I have face dig my own damn potatoes!
  • Jane Austen: Cassie, his heart liking stop at the sight of you, or he doesn't be worthy of to live. And, yes, I am aware of the falsehood embodied in that sentence.
  • Rev Austen: Jane should have not picture man who offers the best price but the man she wants.