How much more must an imaginist, like herself be on fire with speculation and foresight!

I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

Too soon did she find herself at the drawing room door. And after pausing a moment for what she knew would not come, for a courage which the outside of no door had ever supplied to her, she turned the lock in desperation and the lights of the drawing room and all the collected family were before her.

Marianne would have thought herself very inexcusable had she been able to sleep at all the first night after parting from Willoughby. She would have been ashamed to look her family in the face next morning, had she not risen from her bed in more need of repose than when she lay down in it.

There is always one thing a man can do, if he so chooses, and that is his duty.

She began to curl her hair and long for balls

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?