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“sooner or later the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day.”

“I have often wished in vain,” said she, “for another’s judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely trust the direction of my own eye and head — they having been so long occupied with the contemplation of a single object as to become almost incapable of forming a proper idea respecting it.”

“That,” replied I, “is only one of many evils to which a solitary life exposes us.”

“And after a while she became more friendly, and at length I succeeded in securing her attention almost entirely to myself — and then I was happy indeed”

“No one can be happy in eternal solitude•

“If this mood continue, I shall have less difficulty in emancipating my affections from her soft yet unrelenting sway.”

“Let not the sun go down upon your wrath”

“If you bind yourself to her, you’ll repent it all your lifetime”

“He made no reply, but looked down and bit his lip and shortly after rose and sauntered up to Miss Wilson, as much repelled by me, I fancy, as attracted by her.”

“But her eyes — I must not forget those remarkable features, for therein her chief attraction lay, in outward aspect at least”

“if she were more perfect, she would be less interesting.”