I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?

Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! Worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise.--Marianne Dashwood

She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.