If anybody is goose enough to fall in love with you, he'll be also goose enough, I don't doubt, to do so at first sight.

There, don't look perpetually in that glass: but take care!" "What use?
If it is going to happen at all, I say, it has happened already; so I shall just please myself, as usual." And it had happened: and poor Frank had been, ever since the first day he saw Valencia, over head and ears in love.

His time had come, and there was no escaping his fate.
But to escape he tried.

Convinced, with many good men of all ages and creeds, that a celibate life was the fittest one for a clergyman, he had fled from St.Nepomuc's into the wilderness to avoid temptation, and beheld at his cell-door a fairer fiend than ever came to St.
Dunstan.

A fairer fiend, no doubt; for St.Dunstan's imagination created his temptress for him, but Valencia was a reality: and fact and nature may be safely backed to produce something more charming than any monk's brain can do.