Well, my story, surely, would furnish out a surprising kind of novel, if it were to be well told. - Samuel Richardson

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

let me read over again that fearful letter of yours, that I may get it by heart, and with it feed my distress, and make calamity familiar to me.

Which was, that as soon as Miss Emily was marriageable, she would endeavour, either by fair means, or foul, to get her into her hands: And if she did, but for one week, she should the next come out the wife of a man she had in view, who would think half the fortune more than sufficient for himself, and make over the other half to her; and then she should come into her right, which she deems to be half of the fortune of which her husband died possessed.