To Prolong Doubt Was To Prolong Hope.

Jane, Be Still; Don't Struggle So Like A Wild, Frantic Bird, That Is Rending Its Own Plumage In Its Desperation." "i Am No Bird; And No Net Ensnares Me; I Am A Free Human Being, With An Independent Will; Which I Now Exert To Leave You.

You Are Afraid Of Me, Because I Talk Like A Sphinx.

Little Jane's Love Would Have Been My Best Reward, Without It, My Heart Is Broken.

If There Is One Notion I Hate More Than Another, It Is That Of Marriage - I Mean Marriage In The Vulgar, Weak Sense, As A Mere Matter Of Sentiment.

He Was The First To Recognise Me, And To Love What He Saw.