Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

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.

How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!

One word from you shall silence me forever.

I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.