..and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been. . Jane Austen
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  1. There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

  2. A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  3. In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.

  4. The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!

  5. I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

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