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“Cupid’s arrows not only had been too sharp for me, but they were barbed and deeply rooted, and I had not yet been able to wrench them from my heart.”

“Oh, I beg your pardon! I perceive Cupid‘s arrows have been too sharp for you: the wounds, being more than skin-deep, are not yet healed and afresh at every mention of the loved one’s name.”

“We had not met since the evening of the tea party, but there was no visible emotion either of pleasure or pain, no attempt at pathos, no display of injured pride: she was cool in temper, civil and demeanour.”

“Such stormy thoughts, so many different resolutions crowded in upon me, that my mind was little better than a chaos of conflicting passions.”

“I was not indifferent to her”

“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.”

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