She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions

The distance is nothing when one has a motive.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.