As I dressed myself, it caught my eye; I broke the seal very leisurely, and found under the envelope a bill of exchange.

I felt a variety of pleasing sensations at the same time: but I can assert, upon my honor, that the most lively of them all was that proceeding from having known how to be master of myself.
I could mention twenty such circumstances in my life, but I am too much pressed for time to say everything.

I sent a small part of this money to my poor mamma; regretting, with my eyes suffused with tears, the happy time when I should have laid it all at her feet.

All her letters contained evident marks of her distress.

She sent me piles of recipes, and numerous secrets, with which she pretended I might make my fortune and her own.