Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.

[I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible.

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

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.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.