I can easily believe it. Women of that class have great opportunities, and if they are intelligent may be well worth listening to. Such varieites of human nature as they are in the habit of witnessing! And it is not merely in its follies, that they are read; for they see it occasionally under every circumstance that can be most interesting or affecting. What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation-- of all the sacrifices that ennoble us most. A sick chamber may often furnish the worth of volumes.

I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.

Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again