I don't think I am likely to see her again for a very long time, if ever, and our correspondence will be very slight, for I know she wishes it so.

Let this, then, close a sad, sad story.' There was indeed no choice, as far as outward relations went, but so profound a passion was not to be easily outgrown.

The view which makes first love alone eternally valid derives from a conception of the nature of love which, out of the realm of poetry, we may not entertain; but it sometimes happens that the first love is that which would at any period of life have been the supreme one, and then it doubtless attains a special intensity of hold from the fact of its being allied with the earliest outburst of physical passion.

Above all it is thus if the attachment has been brought about by other charms than those of mere personal beauty.

Emily could not be called beautiful, in the ordinary acceptation of the word; for all that, her face grew to possess for Wilfrid a perfection of loveliness beyond anything that he would ever again see in the countenance of fairest woman.