She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.

Grant us peace, Almighty Father, so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.