You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh.
The world may know my words, but it has no such privileges with my heart
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.