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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”

“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.”

“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.”