She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

“I do not wish to avoid the walk. The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”

“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the wi…”

“There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a…”

“My idea of good company, Mr Elliot, is the company of clever, well-informed peo…”