No compliments pleased me, no praise flattered me; I studied, learned, cultivated every gift Heaven had given me--all for your sake.

I thought of no future, but with you, no life but with you, no love but for you; I had no dreams apart from you.

I was proud when they talked of my beauty; that you should have a fair wife delighted me.
"When you returned home I quite expected that you were coming to claim me as your wife--I thought that was what brought you to England.

I remember the day you came.

Ah, well, revenge helps me to live, or I should die! The first tones of your voice, the first clasp of your hand, the first look of your eyes chilled me with sorrow and disappointment.
Yet I hoped against hope.