I always had to reply, when they got down upon their knees to me, and squeezed my hands, that I could not force my sensations; and though I should ever esteem them as friends, I could not change my condition of maiden meditation and exculpation for the agitation of matrimonial engagements.

I need not say that now my feelings have changed, and you, Mr.Verty, have become the idle of my existence.

You are yet young, but with a rare and intrinsic power of intellect.

In future, you will not pay any more intention to that foolish little Reddy, who is very well in her way, but unworthy of a great and opprobrious intelligence like yours.

She is a mere child, as I often tell her, and cannot love.
"Come to your devoted Sallianna immediately, and let us discurse the various harmonies of nature.