Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!

Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now.

The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence.