I have not the pleasure of understanding you.

It was gratitude; gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her manner in rejecting him, and all the unjust accusations accompanying her rejection.

She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

It's a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.