1 I think, I hope, I am sure she is not serious; but I would rather not hear it.
2 He is lively, you are serious; but so much the better: his spirits will support yours.
3 There was everything in the world against their being serious but his words and manner.
4 Everything might be possible rather than serious attachment, or serious approbation of it toward her.
5 There was wretchedness in the idea of its being serious; there was perplexity and agitation every way.
6 She hailed it as an earnest of the most serious determination, and was equal even to encounter her father.
7 Say, rather, that he has not thought at all upon serious subjects, which I believe to be a good deal the case.
8 Her astonishment and confusion increased; and though still not knowing how to suppose him serious, she could hardly stand.
9 They were in the ballroom, the violins were playing, and her mind was in a flutter that forbade its fixing on anything serious.
10 From all that I hear and guess, Baron Wildenheim's attentions to Julia continue, but I do not know that he has any serious encouragement.
11 It was plain that he could have no serious views, no true attachment, by fixing himself in a situation which he must know she would never stoop to.
12 Fanny coloured and looked at Edmund, but felt too angry for speech; and he needed a little recollection before he could say, "Your lively mind can hardly be serious even on serious subjects."
13 In every meeting there was a hope of receiving farther confirmation of Miss Crawford's attachment; but the whirl of a ballroom, perhaps, was not particularly favourable to the excitement or expression of serious feelings.
14 She was not to be won by all that gallantry and wit and good-nature together could do; or, at least, she would not be won by them nearly so soon, without the assistance of sentiment and feeling, and seriousness on serious subjects.
15 Their eager affection in meeting, their exquisite delight in being together, their hours of happy mirth, and moments of serious conference, may be imagined; as well as the sanguine views and spirits of the boy even to the last, and the misery of the girl when he left her.
16 These were not expressions to do Fanny any good; for though she read in too much haste and confusion to form the clearest judgment of Miss Crawford's meaning, it was evident that she meant to compliment her on her brother's attachment, and even to appear to believe it serious.
17 As to your brother's behaviour, certainly I was sensible of a particularity: I had been sensible of it some little time, perhaps two or three weeks; but then I considered it as meaning nothing: I put it down as simply being his way, and was as far from supposing as from wishing him to have any serious thoughts of me.
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