It is my loss that I can only watch you from a distance.' The words moved him.

It was not with conscious insincerity that he spoke of his love and his intellectual aims as interdependent, yet he knew that Annabel revealed the truer mind.
'And my desire is for the happiness of your love!' he exclaimed.
'Forget that pedantry--always my fault.

I cannot feel sure that my other motives will keep their force, but I know that this desire will be only stronger in me as time goes on.' Yet when she kept silence the habit of his thought again uttered itself.
'I shall pursue this work that I have undertaken, because, loving you, I dare not fall below the highest life of which I am capable.

I know that you can see into my nature with those clear eyes of yours.

I could not love you if I did not feel that you were far above me.