Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings." "I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.

You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.

Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour.