It requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

“Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in…”

“When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very diff…”

“A man who has been refused! How could I ever be foolish enough to expect a rene…”

“At Christmas every body invites their friends and thinks little of even the wor…”