Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?

It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them.