Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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.