I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness.

I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone.

A Woman never looks better than on horseback

Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.