Sublime

barouche.

Mas Georgiana não se lhe juntou nessas críticas. A recomendação do irmão era suficiente para garantir a sua boa vontade; o juízo dele era infalível,

piquant:

James and Isabella led the way; and so well satisfied was the latter with her lot, so contentedly was she endeavouring to ensure a pleasant walk to him who brought the double recommendation of being her brother’s friend, and her friend’s brother, so pure and uncoquettish were her feelings, that, though they overtook and passed the two offending you

Isabella will continue to use such hyperbolic language, which in Austen’s novels is consistently a sign of mental vacuity or insincerity.

She had felt the joy of love for that so far from ordinary man—a conductor on the railroad but also a poet, a journalist—and her fragile mind had been unable to readjust to the rough normality of life without him.