This is an evening of wonders, indeed!

It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage.

... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise.

Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to.

…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

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

Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.