Date: 1782

"'Mr. Delvile,' she continued, 'is most earnest and impatient that some alliance should take place without further delay; and for myself, could I see him with propriety and with happiness disposed of, what a weight of anxiety would be removed from my heart!'"

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

Date: 1782

"The revival of this early connection delighted them both, it was balm to the wounded mind of Cecilia, it was renovation to the existence of Mrs. Charlton."

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

Date: 1782

"The consternation of doubt and astonishment which had seized every faculty of Cecilia, now changed into certainty that Delvile indeed was present, all her recollection returned as she listened to this question, and the wild rambling of fancy with which she had incautiously indulged her sorrow, r...

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

Date: 1782

"Else would I tell you that more sacred than my life will I hold what I have heard, that the words just now graven on my heart, shall remain there to eternity unseen."

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

Date: 1782

"All that pride could demand, and all to which ambition could aspire, all that happiness could cover or the most scrupulous delicacy exact, in her I found united; and while my heart was enslaved by her charms, my understanding exulted in its fetters."

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

Date: 1782

"Did I suffer my eagerness to conquer my reason?"

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

Date: 1782

"This question, which so often and so angrily she had revolved in her own mind, again silenced her; and Delvile, with the eagerness of approaching success, redoubled his solicitations."

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

Date: 1782

"Oh if wholly unchecked were the happiness I now have in view, if no foul storm sometimes lowered over the prospect, and for a moment obscured its brightness, how could my heart find room for joy so superlative? The whole world might rise against me as the first man in it who had nothing left to ...

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

Date: 1782

"Left now to herself, sensations unfelt before filled the heart of Cecilia."

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

Date: 1782

"Compared with the general lot of human misery, Cecilia had suffered nothing; but compared with the exaltation of ideal happiness, she had suffered much; willingly, however, would she again have borne all that had distressed her, experienced the same painful suspence, endured the same melancholy ...

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