I hardly think that anybody ought to be contented.

Should my mother die and Dorothy remain with my aunt, or get married, I should be utterly alone in the world.

Providence, or whatever you call it, has made me a lady after a fashion, so that I can't live with the ploughmen's wives, and at the same time has so used me in other respects, that I can't live with anybody else." "Why should not you get married, as well as Dorothy ?" "Who would have me?
And if I had a husband I should want a good one,--a man with a head on his shoulders, and a heart.

Even if I were young and good-looking, or rich, I doubt whether I could please myself.

As it is I am as likely to be taken bodily to heaven, as to become any man's wife." "I suppose most women think so of themselves at some time, and yet they are married." "I am not fit to marry.