But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.

The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.

Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you.