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“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken.”

“A few months’ arduous toil might well be borne by me, with such an end in view.”

“nothing moves you. I wish my nature were as calm as yours!”

“My nature was not originally calm,” said I. “I have learnt to appear so by dint of hard lessons and many repeated efforts.”

“nothing can recall the past.”

“You do not complain, but I see, and feel, and know that you are miserable — and must remain so as long as you keep those walls of impenetrable ice about your still warm and palpitating heart.”

“I knew you were too high-minded and pure and your own nature to continue to guard one so utterly false and polluted with any feelings but those of indignation and scornful abhorrence!”

“Another year is past, and I am weary of this life. And yet I cannot wish to leave it: whatever afflictions assail me here”

“I had no earthly hope but this, and he seems to take a diabolical delight and tearing it away.”

“This was a new stab to my already tortured heart.”

“A lurking gleam of self-complacent triumph at every detection of relenting softness in my manner that congealed me to marble again as often as it recurred. And this morning he finished the business: I think the petrification is so completely effected at last that nothing can melt me again.”