No; I shall never win her.

She is abundantly capable of sympathy, and delights to receive it, but she has no need of love." "I partly agree with you," said Miriam.

"It is a mistaken idea, which men generally entertain, that nature has made women especially prone to throw their whole being into what is technically called love.

We have, to say the least, no more necessity for it than yourselves; only we have nothing else to do with our hearts.

When women have other objects in life, they are not apt to fall in love.