I can account for my devotion to this image no otherwise, than by supposing that its properties were rare and prodigious.

Perhaps you will suspect that such were the first inroads of a passion incident to every female heart, and which frequently gains a footing by means even more slight, and more improbable than these.

I shall not controvert the reasonableness of the suspicion, but leave you at liberty to draw, from my narrative, what conclusions you please.
Night at length returned, and the storm ceased.

The air was once more clear and calm, and bore an affecting contrast to that uproar of the elements by which it had been preceded.

I spent the darksome hours, as I spent the day, contemplative and seated at the window.