You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?" "For the liveliness of your mind, I did.

She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.