One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.

Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never.

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

There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion.

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me.

She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves.