It is a pity they are not handsome! Not that I think Charlotte so _very_ plain--but then she is our particular friend." "She seems a very pleasant young woman." "Oh! dear, yes; but you must own she is very plain.

Lady Lucas herself has often said so, and envied me Jane's beauty.

I do not like to boast of my own child, but to be sure, Jane--one does not often see anybody better looking.

It is what everybody says.

I do not trust my own partiality.