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Julia well knew that on this ground Maria could not be happy but at her expense. With hasty indignation therefore, and a tremulous voice she said to him, "You do not seem afraid of not keeping your countenance when I come in with a basket of provisions—though one might have supposed—but it is only as Agatha that I was to be so overpowering!"—She stopped—Henry Crawford looked rather foolish, and as if he did not know what to say. Tom Bertram began again,
"Miss Crawford must be Amelia.—She will be an excellent Amelia."
"Do not be afraid of my wanting the character," cried Julia with angry quickness;—"I am not to be Agatha, and I am sure I will do nothing else; and as to Amelia, it is of all parts in the world, the most disgusting to me. I quite detest her. An odious, little, pert, unnatural, impudent girl. I have always protested against come-
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