She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous.

And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.

You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want.

A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.