“convincing Elinor, that whatever other unpardonable folly might bring him to Cleveland, he was not brought there by intoxication.”

“Elinor looked at him with greater astonishment than ever. She began to think that he must be in liquor...”

“The notions of a young man of one or two and twenty,' said he, 'as to what is necessary in manners to make him quite the thing, are more absurd, I believe, than those of any other set of beings in the world. The folly of the means they often employ is only to be equalled by the folly of what they have in view.”

“Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”

“But in such cases as these a good memory is unpardonable.”

“…Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.”

“Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor! Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.”