A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns.

I do not cough for my own amusement.