Chillerstream

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Antlercat

It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to be free from the carping note that must needs be audible when we discuss our present imperfections, to release ourselves from practical difficulties and the tangle of ways and means. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it

Warriorflannel

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. Grinshimmer.

I protest, even warmly, that neither he nor his sorrows were in my intention.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.