I ascribed the diligence with which I had sought her to his death-bed injunctions, and prevailed upon her to accept from me the treatment which she would have received from her brother if he had continued to live, and if his power to benefit had been equal to my own.
"Though less can be said in praise of the understanding than of the sensibilities of this woman, she is one whom no one could refrain from loving, though placed in situations far less favourable to the generation of that sentiment than mine.

In habits of domestic and incessant intercourse, in the perpetual contemplation of features animated by boundless gratitude and ineffable sympathies, it could not be expected that either she or I should escape enchantment.
"The poison was too sweet not to be swallowed with avidity by me.

Too late I remembered that I was already enslaved by inextricable obligations.

It was easy to have hidden this impediment from the eyes of my companion, but here my integrity refused to yield.

I can, indeed, lay claim to little merit on account of this forbearance.