"I have just finished the first volume of 'Mansfield Park,' and am very much pleased with it. I think it is a very clever book."

"I have not the least intention of marrying at present, nor have I ever had. I am much too happy as I am."

"I have just been reading a very stupid book, which I am glad I have finished."

"I have just discovered that I am a very bad correspondent."

"I have been so much amused with this place, that I have hardly known how to leave it."