Let them show ever so little inclination, and men go down on their knees at once: old or ugly, it is all the same.
And this I set down as a positive truth.

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power.

They would overcome us entirely if they did.
"Egad!" thought Joseph, entering the dining-room, "I exactly begin to feel as I did at Dumdum with Miss Cutler." Many sweet little appeals, half tender, half jocular, did Miss Sharp make to him about the dishes at dinner; for by this time she was on a footing of considerable familiarity with the family, and as for the girls, they loved each other like sisters.

Young unmarried girls always do, if they are in a house together for ten days.
As if bent upon advancing Rebecca's plans in every way--what must Amelia do, but remind her brother of a promise made last Easter holidays--"When I was a girl at school," said she, laughing--a promise that he, Joseph, would take her to Vauxhall.

"Now," she said, "that Rebecca is with us, will be the very time." "O, delightful!" said Rebecca, going to clap her hands; but she recollected herself, and paused, like a modest creature, as she was.
"To-night is not the night," said Joe.
"Well, to-morrow." "To-morrow your Papa and I dine out," said Mrs.Sedley.
"You don't suppose that I'm going, Mrs.Sed ?" said her husband, "and that a woman of your years and size is to catch cold, in such an abominable damp place ?" "The children must have someone with them," cried Mrs.Sedley.
"Let Joe go," said-his father, laughing.