Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

I am all astonishment.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!