Interest was foreign to the affair, unlike the marriages of most of my acquaintances, who married either for money or for relations.

First, I was rich, she was poor.
Second, I was especially proud of the fact that, while others married with an intention of continuing their polygamic life as bachelors, it was my firm intention to live monogamically after my engagement and the wedding, and my pride swelled immeasurably.
"Yes, I was a wretch, convinced that I was an angel.

The period of my engagement did not last long.

I cannot remember those days without shame.

What an abomination! "It is generally agreed that love is a moral sentiment, a community of thought rather than of sense.