Is it not insupportable to be held down to a canter when you long to gallop for miles?

Only trust me! You have fallen into a fit of despondency and there is not the least need! In fact, nothing could be more fatal, in any predicament! It encourages one to suppose that there is nothing to be done, when a little resolution is all that is wanted to bring matters to a happy conclusion.

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly!

I remember only what interests me.

The charm of your society, My Sparrow, lies in not knowing what will you say next - though one rapidly learns to fear the worst!

My dear girl, you don't consent to an abduction! You consent to an elopement, and I knew you wouldn't do that.

I can't imagine what possessed you to propose to me." "Well that will give you something to puzzle over any time you can't sleep.