She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

She attracted him more than he liked.

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!