Quotation from: Sense and Sensibility

Written by: Jane Austen


"Infirmity!" said Elinor, "do you call Colonel Brandon
infirm? I can easily suppose that his age may appear much
greater to you than to my mother; but you can hardly
deceive yourself as to his having the use of his limbs!"


"Did not you hear him complain of the rheumatism?
and is not that the commonest infirmity of declining life?"


"My dearest child," said her mother, laughing,
"at this rate you must be in continual terror of MY decay;
and it must seem to you a miracle that my life has been
extended to the advanced age of forty."

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