If now she and I were to meet and stand together, equal man and woman, I could make her love me; I feel I could.

Instead of crawling after her thus I would go boldly in at those very gates--do you think she is there ?" He trembled, actually trembled, at the mere thought of her being so near.
"Oh, it's hard, hard! I could despise myself.

Why cannot I trust my manhood, my honest manhood that I was born with, go straight to her and tell her that I love her; that God meant her for me and me for her--true husband and true wife?
Phineas, mark my words"-- and, wild as his manner was, it had a certain force which sounded almost like prophecy--"if ever Ursula March marries she will be my wife--MY wife!" I could only murmur--"Heaven grant it!" "But we shall never marry, neither one nor the other of us; we shall go on apart and alone till the next world.

Perhaps she will come to me then: I may have her in my heart there." John looked upward: there was in the west a broad, red frosty cloud, and just beyond it, nay, all but resting on it, the new moon--a little, wintry, soft new moon.

A sight that might well have hushed the maddest storm of passion: it hushed his.