On all momentous occasions, they reasoned and felt alike.

In ordinary cases, they separated, as it were, into different tracks; but this diversity was productive not of jarring, but of harmony.
A romantic and untutored disposition like mine may be supposed liable to strong impressions from perpetual converse with persons of their age and sex.

The elder was soon discovered to have already disposed of her affections.

The younger was free, and somewhat that is more easily conceived than named stole insensibly upon my heart.

The images that haunted me at home and abroad, in her absence and her presence, gradually coalesced into one shape, and gave birth to an incessant train of latent palpitations and indefinable hopes.