My days were little else than uninterrupted reveries, and night only called up phantoms more vivid and equally enchanting.
The memorable incidents which had lately happened scarcely counterpoised my new sensations or diverted my contemplations from the present.

My views were gradually led to rest upon futurity, and in that I quickly found cause of circumspection and dread.

My present labours were light, and were sufficient for my subsistence in a single state; but wedlock was the parent of new wants and of new cares.

Mr.Hadwin's possessions were adequate to his own frugal maintenance, but, divided between his children, would be too scanty for either.

Besides, this division could only take place at his death, and that was an event whose speedy occurrence was neither desirable nor probable.
Another obstacle was now remembered.