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"At all events it does seem as if we were destined, from our earliest childhood, to be friends. I wonder whether you feel as strangely drawn towards me as I do to you; I have never had a friend--shall I find one now?"

"I crept under one of the beds to reach the window; but as I rose I heard someone crying. Looking up, while I was still upon my knees, I saw you--most assuredly you-- as I see you now: a beautiful young lady, with golden hair and large blue eyes, and lips--your lips--you, as you are here. Your looks won me; I climbed on the bed and put my arms about you, and I think we both fell asleep. I was aroused by a cry."

"I took her hand as I spoke. I was a little shy, as lonely people are, but the situation made me eloquent and even bold. She pressed my hand, she laid hers upon it, and her eyes glowed as she peered into mine. She smiled again, blushed, and answered my welcome very prettily."

and they were roommates 👀

"There was a silence of fully a minute, and then at length she spoke; I could not.
'How wonderful! Twelve years ago, I saw your face in a dream, and it has haunted me ever since.'
'Wonderful indeed!' I repeated, pushing through the horror that had struck me dumb. 'Twelve years ago, in vision or reality, I certainly saw you. I could not forget your face. It has remained before my eyes ever since.'"

"For my part, I was delighted. I longed to see and talk to her and was only waiting till the doctor should give me leave. You who live in towns can have no idea how great an event the introduction of a new friend is, in such solitude as this."

"I shall return for my child in three months; in the meantime, she will be silent as to who we are, whence we come, and whither we are traveling."

"The effect of the full moon in such a state of brilliancy was manifold, she said. It acted on dreams, it acted on lunacy, it acted on nervous people; it had marvelous physical influences connected with life."

"We sat down on a rough-hewn bench under a group of magnificent lime-trees. The sun was setting with all its melancholy splendor behind the sylvan horizon, and the stream that wound through many a group of noble trees and past our feet, reflecting in its current the fast crimson of the sky.
- Imagine it, reader: a river of blood."

"Imagine, reader, the beautiful woman snarled up in the bed-slats, smelling the nurse's breath as she lifted the bed-skirt."

"This was the sensation that woke me: as if two needles ran into my breast very deep at the same moment.
I cried loudly. The lady started back, her eyes fixed on me, then slipped down upon the floor and, I thought, hid herself under the bed."

"It was only then that I saw the solemn but very pretty face looking at me from the side of the bed.
The young lady was kneeling with her hands under the coverlet. I looked at her with a kind of pleased wonder and ceased whimpering. She caressed me with her hands and lay down beside me on the bed. She drew me towards her, smiling; I felt immediately soothed, and fell asleep again."