“I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive. ”

“Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream.”

“I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful.”

“I am afraid I interrupt your solitary ramble, my dear sister,' said he, as he joined her.'You certainly do,' she replied with a smile; 'but it does not follow that the interruption must be unwelcome.”

“…but then I am unlike other people I dare say.”

“I . . . am always half afraid of finding a clever novel too clever--& of finding my own story & my own people all forestalled.”

“Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?""The nicest—by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding.”