Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.

The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.

They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be yours.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.