It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)

Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.