I wonder my son did not propose it." "I dare say he did, ma'am.

Mr.Rushworth is never remiss.

But dear Maria has such a strict sense of propriety, so much of that true delicacy which one seldom meets with nowadays, Mrs.Rushworth--that wish of avoiding particularity! Dear ma'am, only look at her face at this moment; how different from what it was the two last dances!" Miss Bertram did indeed look happy, her eyes were sparkling with pleasure, and she was speaking with great animation, for Julia and her partner, Mr.Crawford, were close to her; they were all in a cluster together.

How she had looked before, Fanny could not recollect, for she had been dancing with Edmund herself, and had not thought about her.
Mrs.Norris continued, "It is quite delightful, ma'am, to see young people so properly happy, so well suited, and so much the thing! I cannot but think of dear Sir Thomas's delight.

And what do you say, ma'am, to the chance of another match?
Mr.Rushworth has set a good example, and such things are very catching." Mrs.Rushworth, who saw nothing but her son, was quite at a loss.
"The couple above, ma'am.