To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate!—Do not wish me such an evil.

I am not one of those who neglect the reigning to bow to the rising sun.

I wish nature had made such hearts as yours more common.

Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation.

her affection would be his forever.

his feelings as to a first, strong attachment; sentences begun which he could not finish, his half averted eyes and more than half expressive glance; all, all declared that he had a heart returning to her at least; that anger, resentment, avoidance, were no more; and that they were succeeded, not merely by friendship or regard, but by the tenderness of the past. Yes, some share of the tenderness of the past. she could not contemplate the change as implying less. He must love her.

and the more I saw, the more I found to admire.

but time makes many changes.

Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly anybody to love