Sense and SensibilityCassell, 1908 - 307 pages |
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Page 45 - Brandon is just the kind of man," said Willoughby one day, when they were talking of him together, "whom everybody speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to." "That is exactly what I think of him,
Page 138 - Nay, Elinor, this reproach from you! — you who have confidence in no one ! ' 'Me!' returned Elinor, in some confusion; ' indeed, Marianne, I have nothing to tell.' ' Nor I,' answered Marianne with energy ; 'our situations, then, are alike. We have neither of us anything to tell ; you, because you communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing.
Page 143 - ... Mrs. Dashwood, and asked how long they had been in town. Elinor was robbed of all presence of mind by such an address, and was unable to say a word. But the feelings of her sister were instantly expressed. Her face was crimsoned over, and she exclaimed in a voice of the greatest emotion, " Good God I Willoughby, what is the meaning of this ? Have you not received my letters ? Will you not shake hands with me...
Page 28 - On each side of the entrance was a sitting-room, about sixteen feet square ; and beyond them were the offices and the stairs. Four bedrooms and two garrets formed the rest of the house. It had not been built many years, and was in good repair.
Page 43 - Their taste was strikingly alike. The same books, the same passages, were idolised by each ; or if any difference appeared, any objection arose, it lasted no longer than till the force of her arguments and the brightness of her eyes could be displayed.
Page 15 - ... women want for more than that? They will live so cheap! Their housekeeping will be nothing at all. They will have no carriage, no horses, and hardly any servants; they will keep no company, and can have no expenses of any kind ! Only conceive how comfortable they will be! Five hundred a year! I am sure I cannot imagine how they will spend half of it; and as to your giving them more, it is quite absurd to think of it. They will be much more able to give you something.
Page 11 - He did not know what he was talking of, I dare say; ten f<~rone but he was lightheaded at the time. Had he been in his right senses, he could not have thought of such a thing as begging you to give away half your fortune from your own child.
Page 4 - That young lady had a talent for describing the involvements, and feelings, and characters of ordinary life, which is to me the most wonderful I ever met with. The Big Bow-wow strain I can do myself like any now going ; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.
Page 94 - Elinor was not inclined, after a little observation, to give him credit for being so genuinely and unaffectedly ill-natured or ill-bred as he wished to appear. His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman, — but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it.
Page 306 - ... whom, two years before, she had considered too old to be married, and who still sought the constitutional safeguard of a flannel waistcoat.