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

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.

Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable.