A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.