God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.

Oh, 'tis not my qualities they object to! 'Tis my lack of vice.

She decided that her wisest course would be to put him out of her mind. After reaching this conclusion she lay thinking about him until at last she fell asleep.

Those fine eyes of hers had a disconcertingly direct gaze, and very often twinkled in a manner disturbing to male egotism. She had common-sense too, and what man wanted the plainly matter-of-fact, when he could enjoy instead Sophia's delicious folly?

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

And don’t you say that it is very kind and obliging of him, sir, like Jessamy, because if you don’t like a person, you don’t wish to be obliged to him!

When fate is got it in for you, there is no limit to what you may have to put up with.