…her mind about as ignorant and uninformed as the female mind at seventeen usually is.

“His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.”

“To such perseverance in willful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, a…”

“…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.”

“my good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as …”