From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes.

There are secrets in all families.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her.

We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing.