You resemble him so strongly, that I have been involuntarily drawn to open my heart to you, as I never thought to do to so young a man.

Yet I find the fulness of my confidence checked by the fear of lowering myself in the estimation of the son of my dearest friend.

But perhaps, if you knew all the circumstances, and had had my experience, you would find some extenuation of my fault.

I was very unhappy when I first came to New Orleans.

I was devotedly attached to a young lady, and I was rudely repelled by her proud and worldly family.