to hope was to expect

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best