Reader, I literally married him.

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.