The world has accurate eyes, if they are not very penetrating.
The world will see a want of balance immediately, and also too true a balance, but it will not detect a depth of concord between two souls that do not show some fretfulness on the surface.
'So it was considered that in refusing my cousin Otto and other proposed alliances, I was heart-free.

An instructed princess, they thought, was of the woeful species of woman.

You left us: I lost you.

I heard you praised for civil indifference to me--the one great quality you do not possess! Then it was the fancy of people that I, being very cold, might be suffered to hear my cousin plead for himself.

The majority of our family favour Otto.