Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!

Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said, whispering mysteriously.

But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life - no true home - nothing to be dearer to me than myself?

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?

Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.