OOMs: A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen

(OOC: There are five letters.)

[OOM: I would much rather have been merry than wise.]
Emma by Jane Austen

OOMs: I consider everybody as having the right to marry once in their lives for love, if they can.
Jane Austen in a letter to her sister Cassandra

(OOC: All dialogue in the second OOM comes from the movie Becoming Jane and this is timed to not long after the last time Jane was in Bar.)

[OOM: Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

Jane Austen Emma]

(OOC: This is millitimed to before the Gothic Winter Tale.)

[OOM:

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Jane Austen]

Will's glad to be back from the adventure with Atton and Guppy and the Fair's coming up soon so he's choosing to enjoy the relative quiet of the Bar with a sandwich and some ale.

Kate's doing a lot better and he knows that she'll find him so he's looking for faces that he hasn't seen before in the Bar.

(OOM: Cricket is a sport of gentlemen.)Jane enters the Bar rather breathless after running down the hill with the Countess and slightly pink ( Read more... )

[OOM: It is the perfect day for playing the game.]

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When Jane enters, she is focused on the manuscript pages in front of her and its not until she feels her hair around her shoulders and a rather unexpected draft.

When she looks down and sees her new outfit, her papers go spilling out of her hands as she tries to make the slit stay shut while not completely losing whatever dignity she has left.

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[OOM: In a game of wits a good opponent is key ( Read more... )