"I could have passed my whole life and eternity itself in this way, without an instant of weariness.

She is the only person with whom I never felt that dryness in conversation, which turns the duty of keeping it up into a torment.

Our intercourse was not so much conversation as an inexhaustible stream of chatter, which never came to an end until it was interrupted from without.

I only felt all the force of my attachment for her when she was out of my sight.

So long as I could see her I was merely happy and satisfied, but my disquiet in her absence went so far as to be painful.