I should hate myself if I were to do so.

Of course you like him better than anybody else ?" "I love him better than all the world besides." "And so do I love you better than all the world besides." And as he spoke he got up from his seat and stood before her.

"I know how poor I am, and unworthy of you; and only that you are engaged to him, I don't suppose that I should now tell you.

Of course you couldn't accept such a one as me.

But I have loved you ever since you remember; and now that you are going to be his wife, I cannot but tell you that it is so.