Each found her greatest safety in silence.
A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.
Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
How clever you are, to know something of which you are ignorant.
Have you any other objection than your belief of my indifference?" - Elizabeth Bennet