Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

When money is once parted with, it can never return.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.