Sublime

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.

If a woman conceals her affection with the same skill from the object of it, she may lose the opportunity of fixing him;

“I recognize the power of a

The kindness, the earnestness of Eleanor’s manner in pressing her to stay, and Henry’s gratified look on being told that her stay was determined, were such sweet proofs of her importance with them, as left her only just so much solicitude as the human mind can never do comfortably without.