"I am sorry it went off.

But these things happen so often! A young man, such as you describe Mr.Bingley, so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks, and when accident separates them, so easily forgets her, that these sort of inconsistencies are very frequent." "An excellent consolation in its way," said Elizabeth, "but it will not do for _us_.

We do not suffer by _accident_.

It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before." "But that expression of 'violently in love' is so hackneyed, so doubtful, so indefinite, that it gives me very little idea.

It is as often applied to feelings which arise from a half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment.