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.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence – “Surely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment’s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.” And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind.

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy.

A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer.