I am trying with the best of my poor abilities to write a true history of certain people whom I knew.

And I, no more than any other human creature, can see the consequences that will follow on any one act of folly or selfishness, such as this poor foolish girl has committed.

We must wait and watch, judging with all charity.

Let you and me go on with her, even to the very end.
Good men draw together very slowly.

Yet it is one of the greatest happinesses one is capable of, to introduce two such to one another, and see how soon they become friends.