To Hope Was To Expect

Do You Not Want To Know Who Has Taken It?" Cried His Wife Impatiently.

Your Countenance Perfectly Informs Me That You Were In Company Last Night With The Person, Whom You Think The Most Agreeable In The World, The Person Who Interests You At This Present Time, More Than All The Rest Of The World Put Together.

I Am Come, Young Ladies, In A Very Moralizing Strain, To Observe That Our Pleasures Of This World Are Always To Be For, And That We Often Purchase Them At A Great Disadvantage, Giving Readi-monied Actual Happiness For A Draft On The Future, That May Not Be Honoured.

It Taught Me To Hope, As I Had Scarcely Ever Allowed Myself To Hope Before.

How Can I Dispose Of Myself With It?