Educated in dependency as they are, they come to the idea of love to snatch at it for their weapon of the man's weakness.

For which my lord calls them heartless, and poets are angry with them, rightly or wrongly.
It must, I fear, be admitted for a truth, that sorrow is the portion of young women who give the full measure of love to the engagement, marrying for love.

At least, Countess Livia could declare subsequently she had foretold it and warned her cousin.

Not another reflection do you hear from me, if I must pay forfeit of my privilege to hurry you on past descriptions of places and anatomy of character and impertinent talk about philosophy in a story.

When we are startled and offended by the insinuated tracing of principal incidents to a thread-bare spot in the nether garments of a man of no significance, I lose patience.
Henrietta's case was a secondary affair.