“Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years, as I could in a day. And Catherine has a heart as deep as I have; the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough, as her whole affection be monopolized by him -- Tush! He is scarcely a degree dearer to her than her dog, or her horse -- It is not in him to be loved like me, how can she love in him what he has not?”
![“[H]is first purpose was to explain himself, and before they reached Mr. Allen's grounds he had done it so well that Catherine did not think it could ever be repeated too often. She was assured of his affection; and that heart in return was solicited, which, perhaps, they pretty equally knew was…” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/47f/jane-austen-39_common-life_h-is-first-purpose-was-to-explain-himsel_2858805.jpg)
![“Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself.” quote by Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/049/jane-austen-39_becoming_catherine-enjoyed-her-usual-happiness-wi_284813.jpg)
