Sublime

profligate of you,” I murmur, bewildered by the choice,

Among the young men their friends and neighbours, the belle jeunesse of the Colony, there were many excellent fellows, several devoted swains, and some two or three who enjoyed the reputation of universal charmers and conquerors. But the home-bred arts and the somewhat boisterous gallantry of those honest young colonists were completely eclipsed by

Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape.’

He was short and sturdy and as a general thing uninspired, and Mr Coyle, who found no amusement in believing in him, had never thought him less exciting than as he stared now out of a face from which you could no more guess whether he had caught an idea than you could judge of your dinner by looking at a dish-cover. Young Lechmere concealed such ac

In her final unfinished novel Sanditon, she also creates a foolish character, Sir Edward Denham, “who had read more sentimental novels than agreed with him,” and who, fancying himself the sort of great seducer found in some of those works, aspires to kidnap a young woman he loves and carry her off to Timbuktu.