It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else.

The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister.

Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?

To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.