Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.

I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over the curves of her mouth now and then.