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

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.

Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

The less said the better.

A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.

I have always maintained the importance of Aunts