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

Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business.

And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.

Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

One word from you shall silence me forever.