Woman's usual occupations of hand and mind will be as open to me then as they are now; or with no important variation.

If I draw less, I shall read more; if I give up music, I shall take to carpet-work.

And as for objects of interest, objects for the affections, which is in truth the great point of inferiority, the want of which is really the great evil to be avoided in _not_ marrying, I shall be very well off, with all the children of a sister I love so much, to care about.

There will be enough of them, in all probability, to supply every sort of sensation that declining life can need.

There will be enough for every hope and every fear; and though my attachment to none can equal that of a parent, it suits my ideas of comfort better than what is warmer and blinder.