She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

I have no talent for certainty.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly.