He found her heart incapable of disguise or dissimulation; frank, generous, and open; susceptible of the most tender impressions; glowing with a keen sense of honour, and melting with humanity.

A youth of his sensibility could not fail of being deeply affected by such attractions.

The nearer he approached the centre of happiness, the more did the velocity of his passion increase.

Her uncle still remained insensible as it were in the arms of death.

Time seemed to linger in its lapse, till the knight was inflamed to the most eager degree of impatience.