Her safety was the object of a solicitude that almost exceeded the bounds of discretion.

Our affection indeed could scarcely transcend her merits.
She never met my eye, or occurred to my reflections, without exciting a kind of enthusiasm.

Her softness, her intelligence, her equanimity, never shall I see surpassed.

I have often shed tears of pleasure at her approach, and pressed her to my bosom in an agony of fondness.
While every day was adding to the charms of her person, and the stores of her mind, there occurred an event which threatened to deprive us of her.

An officer of some rank, who had been disabled by a wound at Quebec, had employed himself, since the ratification of peace, in travelling through the colonies.