If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient.

A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago.

I walk: I prefer walking.

You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

She is loveliness itself.