We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible.

My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometimes convey no ideas at all to my correspondents.

I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control.

Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?