In all times, how dangerous the connexion, when of different sexes, between the scholar and the teacher! Under how many pretences, in that connexion, the heart finds the opportunity to speak out.
Yet it was not with ease and complacency that Aram delivered himself to the intoxication of his deepening attachment.

Sometimes he was studiously cold, or evidently wrestling with the powerful passion that mastered his reason.

It was not without many throes, and desperate resistance, that love at length overwhelmed and subdued him; and these alternations of his mood, if they sometimes offended Madeline and sometimes wounded, still rather increased than lessened the spell which bound her to him.

The doubt and the fear--the caprice and the change, which agitate the surface, swell also the tides, of passion.

Woman, too, whose love is so much the creature of her imagination, always asks something of mystery and conjecture in the object of her affection.