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The whole of Lucy’s behavior in the affair, and the prosperity which crowned it, therefore, may be held forth as a most encouraging instance of what an earnest, an unceasing attention to self-interest, however its progress may have been obstructed, will do in securing every advantage of fortune, with no other sacrifice than that of time and conscience.

‘I am not wishing him too much good,’ said Marianne at last with a sigh, ‘when I wish his secret reflections may be no more unpleasant than my own. He will suffer enough in them.’

Because they neither flattered herself nor her children, she could not believe them good-natured; and because they were fond of reading, she fancied them satirical; perhaps without knowing what it was to be satirical; but that did not signify.

…such grief, shocking as it was to witness it, must have its course…

…she could have no lasting affection in the company of a person who joined insincerity with ignorance, whose want of instruction prevented their meeting in conversation on terms of equality, and whose conduct towards others made every show of attention and deference towards herself perfectly valueless.

…she proceeded to question him on the subject of books; her favourite authors were brought forward and dwelt upon with so rapturous a delight, that any young man of five-and-twenty must have been insensible indeed, not to become an immediate convert to the excellence of such works, however disregarded before. Their taste was strikingly alike.