Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?

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

I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.