I must confess it is a recommendation to me.

I am a great advocate for timidity--and I am sure one does not often meet with it .-- But in those who are at all inferior, it is extremely prepossessing.

Oh! I assure you, Jane Fairfax is a very delightful character, and interests me more than I can express." "You appear to feel a great deal--but I am not aware how you or any of Miss Fairfax's acquaintance here, any of those who have known her longer than yourself, can shew her any other attention than"-- "My dear Miss Woodhouse, a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act.

You and I need not be afraid.

If _we_ set the example, many will follow it as far as they can; though all have not our situations.