Success supposes endeavour.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

I should not mind anything at all.

Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him.

Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business.