Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to.