If anything in the manners of the age can be pardoned, it is an attachment which duration renders more pure, to which its effects do honor, and which becomes cemented by reciprocal esteem.

It was a little from inclination, as I am disposed to think, but much more to please Saint Lambert, that she came to see me.

He had requested her to do it, and there was reason to believe the friendship which began to be established between us would render this society agreeable to all three.

She knew I was acquainted with their connection, and as she could speak to me without restraint, it was natural she should find my conversation agreeable.

She came; I saw her; I was intoxicated with love without an object; this intoxication fascinated my eyes; the object fixed itself upon her.