>>> He hates all your family—­yourself excepted: 
     and I have several times thought, that I have seen
>>> him stung and mortified that love has obliged him
     to kneel at your footstool, because you are a Har-
     lowe.  Yet is this wretch a savage in love.—­Love
>>> that humanizes the fiercest spirits, has not been able
     to subdue his.  His pride, and the credit which a
>>> few plausible qualities, sprinkled among his odious
     ones, have given him, have secured him too good
     a reception from our eye-judging, our undistinguish-
     ing, our self-flattering, our too-confiding sex, to
     make assiduity and obsequiousness, and a conquest
     of his unruly passions, any part of his study.

>>> He has some reason for his animosity to all the
     men, and to one woman of your family.  He has
     always shown you, and his own family too, that he
>>> prefers his pride to his interest.  He is a declared
     marriage-hater; a notorious intriguer; full of his
     inventions, and glorying in them:  he never could
     draw you into declarations of love; nor till your
>>> wise relations persecuted you as they did, to receive
     his addresses as a lover.  He knew that you pro-
     fessedly disliked him for his immoralities; he could
     not, therefore, justly blame you for the coldness
     and indifference of your behaviour to him.

>>> The prevention of mischief was your first main
     view in the correspondence he drew you into.  He
     ought not, then, to have wondered that you declared
     your preference of the single life to any matrimonial
     engagement.  He knew that this was always you
>>> preference; and that before he tricked you away
     so artfully.  What was his conduct to you
     afterwards, that you should of a sudden change
     it?

         Thus was your whole behaviour regular, con-
     sistent, and dutiful to those to whom by birth you
     owed duty; and neither prudish, coquettish, nor
     tyrannical to him.

>>> He had agreed to go on with you upon those
     your own terms, and to rely only on his own merits
     and future reformation for your favour.

>>> It was plain to me, indeed, to whom you com-
     municated all that you knew of your own heart,
     though not all of it that I found out, that love had
     pretty early gained footing in it.  And this you
     yourself would have discovered sooner than you
>>> did, had not his alarming, his unpolite, his rough
     conduct, kept it under.

>>> I knew by experience that love is a fire that is
     not to be played with without burning one’s fingers: 
     I knew it to be a dangerous thing for two single
     persons of different sexes to enter into familiarity