You think I can't know that it is love I feel for you?
It is admiration; it is faith; it is desire too; but it is love.

When you see a flower in a garden, do you not know at once if you like it or no?
Don't you know the moment you look on a landscape, on a splendid building, whether it is beautiful to you?
If, then, with these things one knows--these that haven't any speech, no life like yours or mine--how much more when it is a girl with a face like yours, when it is a mind noble like yours, when it is a touch that thrills, and a voice that drowns the heart in music! Guida, believe that I speak the truth.
I know, I swear, that you are the one passion, the one love of my life.
All others would be as nothing, so long as you live, and I live to look upon you, to be beside you." "Beside me!" she broke in, with an incredulous irony fain to be contradicted, "a girl in a village, poor, knowing nothing, seeing no farther"-- she looked out towards Jersey--"seeing no farther than the little cottage in the little country where I was born." "But you shall see more," he said, "you shall see all, feel all, if you will but listen to me.

Don't deny me what is life and breathing and hope to me.

I'll show you the world; I'll take you where you may see and know.

We will learn it all together.