It was not even possible to form any, as my situation was precisely that in which all my desires were united.

I had not another to conceive, and yet there was a void in my heart.

This state was the more cruel, as I saw no other that was to be preferred to it.

I had fixed my most tender affections upon a person who made me a return of her own.

I lived with her without constraint, and, so to speak, at discretion.