I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.