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“At length, I concluded that the separation could be endured no longer”

“I could not quite decipher the expression of her face, but I was satisfied there was no jealousy therein. What business had I to look for it?”

“other feelings agitated my still unquiet soul”

“Indignation kept me silent. At such a time and place I could not trust myself to answer.”

“I was not polite enough to let it pass.”

“within those eyes there lurked a something that I did not like, and I wondered how I ever could have admired them”

“It was with an agitated burning heart and brain that I hurried homewards”

“I don’t like to put myself under obligations that I can never repay.”

“The moment I touched upon the sentimental or the complimentary — or made the slightest approach to tenderness in word or look — I was not only punished by an immediate change in her manner at the time, but doomed to find her more cold and distant, if not entirely inaccessible, when next I sought her company.”

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