All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone.
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
An annuity is a very serious business.
But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?
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.