It is not, and never will be, in the nature of women to understand this.

I fear I may offend you in what I am now writing; but I must speak what I believe to be the truth, at any sacrifice.

Bitter repentance (if he is not already feeling it) is in store for Herbert, when he finds himself tied to a person who cannot bear comparison with you.

I say this, pitying the poor girl most sincerely, when I think of her youth and her wretched past life.

How it will end I cannot presume to say.