I only marvelled at a cleverness so in harmony with your character and your countenance.

Do not be uneasy, I never doubted that your assumed duplicity covered an angelic candor.

No, your mind, your education, have in no way lessened the precious innocence which we demand in a wife.

You are indeed a wife for a poet, a diplomatist, a thinker, a man destined to endure the chances and changes of life; and my admiration is equalled only by the attachment I feel to you.

I now entreat you--if yesterday you were not playing a little comedy when you accepted the love of a man whose vanity will change to pride if you accept him, one whose defects will become virtues under your divine influence--I entreat you do not excite a passion which, in him, amounts to vice.