“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

“I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”

“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”

“But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward.”

“And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months.”

“What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter.”

“Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.”