...For to be sunk, though but for an hour in your esteem is a humiliation to which I know not how to submit. -Susan.

Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

So long divided and so differently situated, the ties of blood were little more than nothing.

Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation.

Books--oh! No. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.'I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions.