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

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!

I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing — my situation — my foolishness and awkwardness.

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.