"I am quite determined to be happy, and to make every one else so if I can."

"I have just returned from a visit to some friends, where I was very well entertained, and had a good deal of dancing."

"My dearest Cassandra, I have just received your letter, and am sorry to find that you have so little to say for yourself."

"I am not at all a lover of solitude."

"I am quite ashamed of my own stupidity."