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.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

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

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts

Time did not compose her.

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

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.