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

For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.