Tell me, Sophy, my dear, what do you think of our new visitor?
Don't you think he seemed to be good-natured ?'--'Immensely so, indeed, Mamma,' replied she.

'I think he has a great deal to say upon every thing, and is never at a loss; and the more trifling the subject, the more he has to say.'-- 'Yes,' cried Olivia, 'he is well enough for a man; but for my part, I don't much like him, he is so extremely impudent and familiar; but on the guitar he is shocking.' These two last speeches I interpreted by contraries.

I found by this, that Sophia internally despised, as much as Olivia secretly admired him.--'Whatever may be your opinions of him, my children,' cried I, 'to confess a truth, he has not prepossest me in his favour.
Disproportioned friendships ever terminate in disgust; and I thought, notwithstanding all his ease, that he seemed perfectly sensible of the distance between us.

Let us keep to companions of our own rank.

There is no character more contemptible than a man that is a fortune-hunter, and I can see no reason why fortune-hunting women should not be contemptible too.