It is as true as that I sit here.

And had I had an idea of it, nothing should have induced me to accept the necklace.

As to your brother's behaviour, certainly I was sensible of a particularity: I had been sensible of it some little time, perhaps two or three weeks; but then I considered it as meaning nothing: I put it down as simply being his way, and was as far from supposing as from wishing him to have any serious thoughts of me.

I had not, Miss Crawford, been an inattentive observer of what was passing between him and some part of this family in the summer and autumn.

I was quiet, but I was not blind.