Mount Austen

Famous quotes containing the words mount and/or austen:

    “I mount the steps and ring the bell, turning
    Wearily, as one would turn to nod good-bye to Rochefoucauld,
    If the street were time and he at the end of the street,
    And I say, “Cousin Harriet, here is the Boston Evening Transcript.””
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a
    dead child, some weeks before she was expected, owing to a
    fright. I suppose that she happened unawares to look at her
    husband.”
    —Jane Austen (1775–1817)