Date: 1778, 1779

"But I will not afflict you with the melancholy phantasms of my brain."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"'Deny me not, most charming of women," cried he, 'deny me not this only moment that is lent me, to pour forth my soul into your gentle ears,--to tell you how much I suffer from your absence,--how much I dread your displeasure,--and how cruelly I am affected by your coldness!'"

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"Never! O Miss Anville, how cruel, how piercing to my soul is that icy word!"

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"He went, and presently returning, produced a great quantity of hair, in such a nasty condition, that I was amazed she would take it; and the man as he delivered it to her, found it impossible to keep his countenance; which she had no sooner observed, than all her stormy passions were again raised."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"The hint thrown out concerning myself, is wholly unintelligible to me: my heart, I dare own, fully acquits me of vice, but without blemish, I have never ventured to pronounce myself."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"But I will not dwell upon a subject which almost compels from me reflections that cannot but be wounding to a heart so formed for filial tenderness as my Evelina's."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"Almost instantly, the whole truth of the transaction seemed to rush upon her mind, and her wrath was inconceivably violent."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"I had many witticisms to endure from the Branghtons, upon account of my staying so long with the Scotch mope, as they call him; but I attend to them very little, for my whole heart was filled with pity and concern."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"Be ever thus, my dearest Evelina, dauntless in the cause of distress! let no weak fears, no timid doubts, deter you from the exertion of your duty, according to the fullest sense of it that Nature has implanted in your mind."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)

Date: 1778, 1779

"Yet, Madam, so hard is it to root from the mind its favourite principles, or prejudices, call them which you please, that I lingered another week ere I had the resolution to send away a letter which I regarded as the death of my independence."

— Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances (1752-1840)