The connection which this disposition common to both seemed to remove to a distance, was however rapidly formed.

Our landlady perceiving its progress, became furious, and her brutality forwarded my affair with the young girl, who, having no person in the house except myself to give her the least support, was sorry to see me go from home, and sighed for the return of her protector.

The affinity our hearts bore to each other, and the similarity of our dispositions, had soon their ordinary effect.

She thought she saw in me an honest man, and in this she was not deceived.
I thought I perceived in her a woman of great sensibility, simple in her manners, and devoid of all coquetry:--I was no more deceived in her than she in me.

I began by declaring to her that I would never either abandon or marry her.