Marianne saw and listened with increasing surprise. She began almost to feel a dislike of Edward; and it ended, as every feeling must end with her, by carrying back her thoughts to Willoughby, whose manners formed a contrast sufficiently striking to those of his brother elect.
After a short silence which succeeded the first surprise and enquiries of meeting, Marianne asked Edward if he came directly from London.
Aglaya was the only one of the family whose good graces he could not gain, and who always spoke to him haughtily, but it so happened that the boy one day succeeded in giving the proud maiden a
surprise.
Now to his
surprise he found that he no longer felt either doubt or perplexity about these questions.
On the other hand, this, as destroying the element of
surprise, would have made his strategy of no avail, so that the whole question is beset with difficulties.
But, my children, there came a morning when Pinocchio awoke and found a great
surprise awaiting him, a
surprise which made him feel very unhappy, as you shall see.
This care for domestic details in Kitty, so opposed to Levin's ideal of exalted happiness, was at first one of the disappointments; and this sweet care of her household, the aim of which he did not understand, but could not help loving, was one of the new happy
surprises.
No
surprise of strangeness could equal the
surprise of that complete familiarity.
That is one of the first heart-beating
surprises that come upon the boy Columbus, as he sets out to discover the New World of woman; and indeed his
surprise has not seldom deepened into admiration, as he has found that not only does woman eat, but frequently eats a lot.
Hence probably it is, that we feel so little surprise at one, of two species closely allied in habits, being rare and the other abundant in the same district; or, again, that one should be abundant in one district, and another, filling the same place in the economy of nature, should be abundant in a neighbouring district, differing very little in its conditions.
If then, as appears probable, species first become rare and then extinct -- if the too rapid increase of every species, even the most favoured, is steadily checked, as we must admit, though how and when it is hard to say -- and if we see, without the smallest surprise, though unable to assign the precise reason, one species abundant and another closely allied species rare in the same district -- why should we feel such great astonishment at the rarity being carried one step further to extinction?
The least agreeable circumstance in the business was the
surprise it must occasion to Elizabeth Bennet, whose friendship she valued beyond that of any other person.
Surprise! yet, as they watch it all in the comfort of our cinema screens with the highest picture and sound quality."
The
surprise element in a relationship cannot be wished away, or taken for granted.
