A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. Jane Austen
A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so. See image Jane Austen
But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.] See image Jane Austen