You'll understand me best if I go back and tell you more than I have done yet about my life before I left England.

Let me think a while.' He was overcome with a fear that he might not be able to convey with sufficient force the design which had wholly possessed him.

So painful was the struggle in him between enthusiasm and a consciousness of failing faculties, that Sidney grasped his hand and begged him to speak simply, without effort.
'Have no fear about my understanding you.

We've talked a great deal together, and I know very well what your strongest motives are.

Trust me to sympathise with you.' 'I do! If I hadn't that trust, Sidney, I couldn't have felt the joy I did when you spoke to me of my Jane.