A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again.

Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.