I could not excuse a man's having more music than love--more ear than eye--a more acute sensibility to fine sounds than to my feelings.
How did Miss Campbell appear to like it ?" "It was her very particular friend, you know." "Poor comfort!" said Emma, laughing.

"One would rather have a stranger preferred than one's very particular friend--with a stranger it might not recur again--but the misery of having a very particular friend always at hand, to do every thing better than one does oneself!--Poor Mrs.Dixon! Well, I am glad she is gone to settle in Ireland." "You are right.

It was not very flattering to Miss Campbell; but she really did not seem to feel it." "So much the better--or so much the worse:--I do not know which.

But be it sweetness or be it stupidity in her--quickness of friendship, or dulness of feeling--there was one person, I think, who must have felt it: Miss Fairfax herself.

She must have felt the improper and dangerous distinction." "As to that--I do not--" "Oh! do not imagine that I expect an account of Miss Fairfax's sensations from you, or from any body else.