I again attached myself to her train; I bowed myself to the very dust before her.

What to me were her chilling reply and disdainful civilities ?---only still stronger excitements to persevere.
I spare you and myself the gradual progress of my schemes.

A woman may recover her first passion, it is true; but then she must replace it with another.

That other was denied to Caroline: she had not even children to engross her thoughts and to occupy her affections; and the gay world, which to many becomes an object, was to her only an escape.
Clarence, my triumph came! Lady Walden (who had never known our secret) invited me to her house: Caroline was there.

In the same spot where we had so often stood before, and in which her earliest affections were insensibly breathed away, in that same spot I drew from her colourless and trembling lips the confession of her weakness, the restored and pervading power of my remembrance.
But Caroline was a proud and virtuous woman: even while her heart betrayed her, her mind resisted; and in the very avowal of her unconquered attachment, she renounced and discarded me forever.