I Cannot Speak Well Enough To Be

To Be So Bent On Marriage - To Pursue A Man Merely For The Sake Of Situation - Is A Sort Of Thing That Shocks Me; I Cannot Understand It. Poverty Is A Great Evil, But To A Woman Of Education And Feeling It Ought Not, It Cannot Be The Greatest. I Would Rather Be A Teacher At A School (and I Can Think Of Nothing Worse) Than Marry A Man I Did Not Like.

…but Then I Am Unlike Other People I Dare Say.

How Hard It Is In Some Cases To Be Believed!' 'and How Impossible In Others!

He Is Also Handsome," Replied Elizabeth, "which A Young Man Ought Likewise To Be, If He Possibly Can. His Character Is Thereby Complete.

Mary Wished To Say Something Very Sensible, But Knew Not How.