Certainly this would be the case on the man's part; and on the woman's--God help her, if she is left to love passionately and alone.
"I am tolerably well convinced that I shall never marry at all.

Reason tells me so, and I am not so utterly the slave of feeling but that I can _occasionally hear_ her voice." "June 2nd, 1840.
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is not yet come to Haworth; but she is to come on the condition that I first go and stay a few days there.

If all be well, I shall go next Wednesday.

I may stay at G--- until Friday or Saturday, and the early part of the following week I shall pass with you, if you will have me--which last sentence indeed is nonsense, for as I shall be glad to see you, so I know you will be glad to see me.