The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved.

If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

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

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.