But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

to hope was to expect