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@@@@@ ?Sir Thomas would not like itFanny, ring the bell; I must have my dinnerTo be sure, Julia is dressed by this time ?I am convinced, madam,? said Edmund, preventing Fanny, ?that Sir Thomas would not like it ?There, my dear, do you hear what Edmund says?? ?If I were to decline the part,? said Maria, with renewed zeal, ?Julia would certainly take it ?What!? cried Edmund, ?if she knew your reasons!? ?Oh! she might think the difference between us?the difference in our situations?that she need not be so scrupulous as I might feel necessaryI am sure she would argue soNo; you must excuse me; I cannot retract my consent; it is too far settled, everybody would be so disappointed, Tom would be quite angry; and if we are so very nice, we shall never act anything 125 Jane Austen ?I was just going to say the very same thing,? said Mrs?If every play is to be objected to, you will act nothing, and the preparations will be all so much money thrown away, and I am sure that would be a discredit to us allI do not know the play; but, as Maria says, if there is anything a little too warm (and it is so with most of them) it can be easily left outWe must not be over-precise, EdmundRushworth is to act too, there can be no harmI only wish Tom had known his own mind when the carpenters began, for there was the loss of half a day?s work about those side-doorsThe curtain will be a good job, howeverThe maids do their work very well, and I think we shall be able to send back some dozens of the ringsThere is no occasion to put them so very close togetherI am of some use, I hope, in preventing waste and making the most of thingsThere should always be one steady head to superintend so many young onesI forgot to tell Tom of something that happened to me this very dayI had been looking about me in the poultry-yard, and was just coming out, when who should I see but Dick Jackson making up to the servants? hall-door with two bits of deal board in his hand, bringing them to father, you may be sure; mother had chanced to send him of a message to father, and then father had bid him bring up them two bits of board, for he could not no how do without themI knew what all this meant, for the servants? dinner-bell was ringing at the very moment over our heads; and as I hate such encroaching people (the Jacksons are very encroaching, I have always said so: just the sort of people to get all they can), I said to the boy directly (a great lubberly fellow of ten years old, you know, who ought to be ashamed of himself), ?I?ll take the boards to your father, Dick, so get you home again as fast as you can The boy looked very silly, and turned away without offering a word, for I believe I might speak pretty sharp; and I dare say it will cure him of coming marauding about the house for one whileI hate such greediness?so good as your father is to the family, employing the man all the year round!? Nobody was at the trouble of an answer; the others soon returned; and Edmund found that to have endeavoured to set them right must be his only satisfaction Dinner passed heavily