Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be.

she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.

As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.