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

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

I might as well enquire,” replied she, “why with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.