all the privacy and propriety

This is the end of all the privacy and propriety which was talked about at first.

(Mansfield Park, Chapter 16 / Angel, Season 2, Episode 8)

For his sake

This is very bad. He had induced her to place herself, for his sake, in a situation of extreme difficulty and uneasiness, and it should have been his first object to prevent her from suffering unnecessarily.

(Emma, Chapter 51 / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 7, Episode 3)

foolishly tempted

My blindness to what was going on, led me to act by them in a way that I must always be ashamed of, and I was very foolishly tempted to say and do many things which may well lay me open to unpleasant conjectures….

(Emma, Chapter 49 / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2, Episode 4)

but now

But now, she would rather it had not happened. She believed he had been drinking too much of Mr Weston’s good wine….

(Emma, Chapter 15 / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 3, Episode 10)

refused

The invitation was refused.

(Emma, Chapter 45 / Angel, Season 2, Episode 2)

modesty and the genuine

[H]e trusted he had every reason to be satisfied, since the refusal which his cousin had stedfastly given him would naturally flow from her bashful modesty and the genuine delicacy of her character.

(Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 20 / Angel, Season 2, Episode 2)

[S]he was immediately preparing to speak with exquisite calmness and gravity of the weather and the night; but scarcely had she begun, scarcely had they passed the sweep-gate and joined the other carriage, than she found her subject cut up….

(Emma, Chapter 15 / Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 3, Episode 2)

We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

(Persuasion, Chapter 23 / Angel, Season 1, Episode 23)