Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby.

Of John I know very little, though we have lived together for years; but of Willoughby my judgment has long been formed." Elinor thought it wisest to touch that point no more.

She knew her sister's temper.

Opposition on so tender a subject would only attach her the more to her own opinion.