When you first met my eye, this similitude startled me.

Your subsequent appeal to my compassion was clothed in such terms as formed a powerful contrast with your dress, and prepossessed me greatly in favour of your education and capacity.
"In my present hopeless condition, every incident, however trivial, was attentively considered, with a view to extract from it some means of escaping from my difficulties.

My love for the Italian girl, in spite of all my efforts to keep it alive, had begun to languish.

Marriage was impossible; and had now, in some degree, ceased to be desirable.

We are apt to judge of others by ourselves.