The Complete Novels

Every thing was safe enough and she smiled over the many anxious feelings she had wasted on the subject.

I do not like the studied air and artificial inflexions of voice which your very popular and most admired preachers generally have. A simple delivery is much better calculated to inspire devotion, and shows a much better taste.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story.

the ladies, young or old. There is no resisting a cockade,

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony, in a moment.

home, they could go directly to their own room, where hartshorn

In revolving these matters, while she undressed, it suddenly struck her as not unlikely, that she might that morning have passed near the very spot of this unfortunate woman’s confinement—might have been within a few paces of the cell in which she languished out her days; for what part of the Abbey could be more fitted for the purpose than that which yet bore the traces of monastic division?