I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.

He must enter into all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

Oh! mama, how spiritless, how tame was Edward's manner in reading to us last night! I felt for my sister most severely.

Yet she bore it with so much composure, she seemed scarcely to notice it.

I could hardly keep my seat.