Your heart opened as involuntarily and as inevitably to receive him, as the flower unfolds itself to the noonday sun.

It is your destiny; but would to God I could oppose it, that I could substitute for you a happier, if less brilliant lot." "A happier lot than to be the wife of Ernest?
Oh! Mrs.Linwood, Heaven offers nothing to the eye of faith more blissful, more divine." "Alas! my child, such is always the dream of love like yours, and from such dreams there must be a day of awakening.

God never intended their realization in this world.

You look up to me with wondering and reproachful glance.

You have feared me, Gabriella, feared that I would oppose my son's choice, if it rested on one so lowly as you believe yourself.