The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory." Catherine coloured, and said, "I was not thinking of anything." That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me." Well then, I will not." Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.