You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection.