Date: 1796
"I have read the emotions of your bosom; you are yet ill skilled in concealing them, and they could not escape my attentive eye."
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Date: 1796
"This Lorenzo is dangerous to your repose; he has already made an impression upon your heart."
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Date: 1796
"Your heart is tender and susceptible: it has already received a strong impression; but when once convinced that you should not encourage such sentiments, I trust that you have sufficient fortitude to drive them from your bosom."
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Date: 1796
"He wrote these verses on his voyage to Cuba, when his mind was clouded by sorrow, and he forgot that he had a wife and children."
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Date: 1796
"You have made an impression upon her young heart which gives me the most serious alarm: to prevent that impression from growing stronger; I am obliged to decline your acquaintance. For me, you may be sure that I should rejoice at establishing my child so advantageously."
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Date: 1796
"Pleasure fled, and Shame usurped her seat in his bosom."
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Date: 1796
"He looked forward with horror: his heart was despondent, and became the abode of satiety and disgust: he avoided the eyes of his partner in frailty."
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Date: 1796
"He strove to pray: his bosom no longer glowed with devotion: his thoughts insensibly wandered to Matilda's secret charms."
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Date: 1796
"The pleasures which he had just tasted for the first time were still impressed upon his mind: his brain was bewildered, and presented a confused chaos of remorse, voluptuousness, inquietude, and fear."
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Date: 1796
"He related her adventure; and he added, that since that time his ideas having undergone a thorough revolution, he now felt much compassion for the unfortunate nun."
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