“It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.”

“Elizabeth could never address her without feeling that all the comfort of intimacy was over, and, though determined not to slacken as a correspondent, it was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was.”

“Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried.”

“Luck which so often defies anticipation in matrimonial affairs, giving attraction to what is moderate rather than to what is superior.”

“I would much rather have been merry than wise.”

“They were rather handsome, had been educated in one of the first private seminaries in town,”

“One had rather, on such occasions, do too much than too little.”