Nay, you may have met with another whom you may love; and considering yourself as bound in honour to Elizabeth, this struggle may occasion the poignant misery which you appear to feel." "My dear father, reassure yourself.

I love my cousin tenderly and sincerely.

I never saw any woman who excited, as Elizabeth does, my warmest admiration and affection.

My future hopes and prospects are entirely bound up in the expectation of our union." "The expression of your sentiments of this subject, my dear Victor, gives me more pleasure than I have for some time experienced.

If you feel thus, we shall assuredly be happy, however present events may cast a gloom over us.