"Upon the whole... I am well satisfied enough. The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants [i.e. needs] shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story... anything that would form a contrast and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and general epigrammatism of the general style." - Jane Austen