But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.
Let us have the luxury of silence.
Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.
I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.