Heaven forbid! — That would be the greatest misfortune of all! — To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! — Do not wish me such an evi… - Jane Austen

I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.

"Eleanor went to her room "where she was free to think and be wretched.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.