Nobody meant to be unkind, but nobody put themselves out of their way to secure her comfort.

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love…”

“Shall I ask you how the church is to be filled, if a man is neither to take ord…”

“He hoped she might make some amends for the many very plain faces he was contin…”

“[F]or though a very few hours spent in hard labour of incessant talking will di…”