This was one of her expressions.

'I will not say, that since I entered into the engagement I have not had some happy moments; but I can say, that I have never known the blessing of one tranquil hour:'-- and the quivering lip, Emma, which uttered it, was an attestation that I felt at my heart." "Poor girl!" said Emma.

"She thinks herself wrong, then, for having consented to a private engagement ?" "Wrong! No one, I believe, can blame her more than she is disposed to blame herself.

'The consequence,' said she, 'has been a state of perpetual suffering to me; and so it ought.

But after all the punishment that misconduct can bring, it is still not less misconduct.