As her mind unfolded, so many beauteous qualities appeared that she excited my warm admiration.
"By chance, I discovered that the girl loved me; not as a father, but as she would a lover.

She does not know to this day that I made the discovery when I did.

As for myself, I had for some time been madly in love with her.

When I discovered, that my affections were returned, I made proposals, at that time regarded as honorable enough by the majority of white men of the South.
"It seemed as though my proposition did not take her by surprise.

She gently, but most firmly rejected my proposal.