They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number.

Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?

But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.