A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.It is something to think of
I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other.
Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart.
Now they were as strangers; worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.
I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way.
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness. [...] Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some w...
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?
A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.