There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

I can always live by my pen.

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.

I am all astonishment.

The publicis rather apt to be unreasonably discontented when a woman does marry again, than when she does not.

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.