That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible.

They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects.

Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you.

Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect.

I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness.