As the moments dragged on and she did not come, a hundred alarms tormented him.

First among these was a dread that she might have made resolves such as had sprung up so plenteously in him, and that she might have been strong enough to act upon them and to remain at home.
But he was mistaken in the girl.

Such resolutions as he had been making and breaking had never come to her at all.

The difference between the man and the woman was this: he resolved in his mind not to see her and failed in keeping to his resolution; while she resolved in her heart to see him--resolved that nothing in heaven or earth or the other place could keep her from seeing him, and succeeded in carrying out her resolution.
The intuitive resolve, the one that does not know it is a resolution, is the sort before which obstacles fall like corn before the sickle.
After John had waited a weary time, the form of the girl appeared above the crest of the hill.

She was holding up the skirt of her gown, and glided over the earth so rapidly that she appeared to be running.