She attracted him more than he liked.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

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

Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.