Bought hearts your ladyship certainly would not recommend.

They're such poor things--no wear at all.

Turn them which way you will, you can make nothing of them.' 'You've tried then, have you ?' said Lady Catharine.
'To my cost.

Very nearly taken in by them half a dozen times; for they are brought to me by dozens; and they are so made up for sale, and the people do so swear to you that it's real, real love, and it looks so like it; and, if you stoop to examine it, you hear it pressed upon you by such elegant oaths--By all that's lovely!--By all my hopes of happiness!--By your own charming self! Why, what can one do but look like a fool, and believe; for these men, at the time, all look so like gentlemen, that one cannot bring oneself flatly to tell them that they are cheats and swindlers, that they are perjuring their precious souls.
Besides, to call a lover a perjured creature is to encourage him.

He would have a right to complain if you went back after that.' 'Oh dear! what a move was there!' cried Lady Catharine.