"To be disgraced in the eyes of the world, to be ashamed of one's self! That is the misery, that is the horror!"

"I have just been informed that I am to be an aunt."

"I am tired of great men and great women, who are always good, and always doing good, and always saying good things."

"I do not like to be told that I am an object of compassion."

"It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."