for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!