...conquer." She paused, for she felt rebuked by the earnest and melancholy gaze of the young sculptor. Marie loved him as much as it was in her nature to love — more than she suspected herself. It was with a flushed cheek and glittering eye that she let him...

...has been already said, was weak, not false ; but for this parting all would have been well, as she loved him as much as it was in her nature to love anyone ; and, fur the first month or so after his departure she kept her promises to him very faithfully,...

...put her arms around his neck and kissed his forehead — " Oh, Edward I am so sorry, so sorry." She loved him as much as it was in her nature to love anybody ; but she had a passionate desire that he should love her, and as she felt rather than knew...