The older a person grows, Harriet, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad,—the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tr…”

“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.”

“When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty su…”

“John Thorpe [...] was a stout young man of middling height, who, with a plain f…”