“And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there.”

“We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.”

“We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves.”

“You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough.”

“Till it does come, you know, we women never mean to have anybody. It is a thing of course among us, that every man is refused, till he offers.”

“And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner.”

“But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.”