Reader, I literally married him.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.

On the contrary, I'm a universal patriot, if you could understand me rightly: my country is the world.

They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of my suffering is very acute. Truly, I ought not to have been born: they should have smothered me at first cry.

My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world - the ... affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.

But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!