Twin souls are sure to come together at last, if they can only have patience to wait for the meeting.

I felt instinctively, when we met at the Chateau de Sigognac, that you were my fate.

At sight of you my heart, which had always lain dormant before, and never responded to any appeal, thrilled within me, and, unasked, yielded to you all its love and allegiance.

Your very timidity won more for you than the greatest boldness and assurance could have done, and from the first moment of our acquaintance I resolved never to give myself to any one but you, or God." "And yet, cruel, hard-hearted child that you were--though so divinely good and lovely--you refused your hand to me, when I sued for it on my knees.

I know well that it was all through generosity, and that of the noblest--but, my darling, it was a very cruel generosity too." "I will do my best to atone for it now, my dearest de Sigognac, in giving you this hand you wished for, together with my heart, which has long been all your own.