“Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.”

“…Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so…”

“Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation.”

“All the overpowering blinding, bewildering, first effects of strong surprise were over with her. Still, however, she had enough to feel! It was agitation, pain, pleasure, a something between delight and misery.”

“She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.”

“A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.”

“Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.”