My dearest fanny, i am writing what will not be of the smallest use to you. i am feeling differently every moment, & shall not be able to suggest a single thing that can assist your mind.—i could lament in one sentence & laugh in the next, but as to opinion or counsel i am sure none will [be] extracted worth having from this letter.
in this passage from “on making an agreeable marriage,” jane austen worries that

fanny will be insulted that austen is laughing at her

fanny will ignore her good advice

she herself feels differently with each passing moment

she has good advice to give fanny

Excerpt from saving the thrift store: a dramalee washington2rosa: eddie, i don’t recognize the shirt you’re wearing. when did you get it? 3louis: it doesn’t look as disheveled as the soccer shirts you wear all the time.4eddie: well, i’m not going to tiptoe through the soccer field to keep my clothes neat. (louis playfully aims a soccer ball at eddie. rosa deflects it.)5rosa: what i was trying to say is that the shirt looks really good. (louis wanders over to the morning newspaper that is still sitting on the front lawn. he leafs through it while eddie and rosa talk.) in line 5, which point is rosa making when she says eddie’s shirt looks good? a) the store must have new merchandise. b) rosa is jealous of eddie’s new shirt. c) eddie must have done his own laundry. d) eddie often wears old, tattered shirts.