A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.
Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.
To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
to hope was to expect
It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.
You have delighted us long enough.