“I am very strong. Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like.”
“That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.”
“…she had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever…”
“While we were together, you know, there was nothing to be feared...The only time that I ever really suffered in body or mid, the only time that I ever fancied myself unwell, or had any ideas of danger, was the winter that I passed by myself at Deal, when the Admiral (Captain Croft then) was in the North Seas. I lived in perpetual fright at that time, and had all manner of imaginary complaints from not knowing what to do with myself, or when I should hear from him next; but as long as we could be together, nothing ever ailed me, and I never met with the smallest inconvenience.”
“That will just do for me, you know. I shall be sure to say three dull things as soon as ever I open my mouth, shan't I?”
“I am determined that nothing but the deepest love could ever induce me into matrimony. [Elizabeth]”