Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told.

A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Till this moment I never knew myself.

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.