It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.

She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.

I was quiet but I was not blind.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . .

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.