No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

I was not really angry: I felt for him all the time, and longed to be reconciled; but I determined he should make the first advances, or at least show some signs of an humble and contrite spirit, first; for, if I began, it would only minister to his self-conceit, increase his arrogance, and quite destroy the lesson I wanted to give him.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments

In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child - ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

A girl's affections should never be won unsought.