One likes to hear what is to be going on, to be au fair with the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
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.