One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.
It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering.
There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!
But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea.