She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private.

All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

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

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.