I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

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!

I would much rather have been merry than wise.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.