I think nobody can justly accuse me of sparing myself upon any occasion, but really I cannot do everything at once.

And as for Fanny's just stepping down to my house for me--it is not much above a quarter of a mile--I cannot think I was unreasonable to ask it.

How often do I pace it three times a day, early and late, ay, and in all weathers too, and say nothing about it ?" "I wish Fanny had half your strength, ma'am." "If Fanny would be more regular in her exercise, she would not be knocked up so soon.

She has not been out on horseback now this long while, and I am persuaded that, when she does not ride, she ought to walk.

If she had been riding before, I should not have asked it of her.
But I thought it would rather do her good after being stooping among the roses; for there is nothing so refreshing as a walk after a fatigue of that kind; and though the sun was strong, it was not so very hot.
Between ourselves, Edmund," nodding significantly at his mother, "it was cutting the roses, and dawdling about in the flower-garden, that did the mischief." "I am afraid it was, indeed," said the more candid Lady Bertram, who had overheard her; "I am very much afraid she caught the headache there, for the heat was enough to kill anybody.