…she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

She attracted him more than he liked.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.