Daily the body changes, daily the mind--why not the heart?
I did design to travel and converse with various persons.
'Pardon it to one who knew that she would require super-feminine power of decision to resolve that she would dispose of herself! 'I heard of Harry Richmond before I saw him.

My curiosity to behold the two fair boys of the sailor kingdom set me whipping my pony after them that day so remote, which is always yesterday.

My thoughts followed you, and I wondered--does he mean to be a distinguished countryman of his Nelson?
or a man of learning?
Then many an argument with "my Professor," until--for so it will ever be--the weaker creature did succumb in the open controversy, and thought her thoughts to herself.

Contempt of England gained on me still.

But when I lay withered, though so young, by the sea-shore, his country's ancient grandeur insisted, and I dreamed of Harry Richmond, imagining that I had been false to my childhood.
You stood before me, dearest.