"Oh! those things are too common.
When one lives in the world, a man or woman's marrying for money is too common to strike one as it ought.

I was very young, and associated only with the young, and we were a thoughtless, gay set, without any strict rules of conduct.

We lived for enjoyment.

I think differently now; time and sickness and sorrow have given me other notions; but at that period I must own I saw nothing reprehensible in what Mr Elliot was doing.

'To do the best for himself,' passed as a duty." "But was not she a very low woman ?" "Yes; which I objected to, but he would not regard.