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"You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope."
"There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved."
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul."
"We do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit."
"I am not the same man I was when we were first acquainted."
"A man does not recover from such a devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not."
"She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older—the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."