And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.

A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so.

It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.

I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.

Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.