Vendetta

some privileged beings can pass their lives in admiring it, and in finding, ceaselessly, the varying phenomena that enchant them

Love is like the ocean: seen superficially, or in haste, it is called monotonous by common souls, whereas

They played together, like children, with nothings, nothings that brought them ever back to their love, ceasing their play only to fall into a revery of the "far niente

"Oh, my Ginevra! for now you are mine, here is our true wedding. Here," he added, "all things will smile upon us."

Ginevra comprehended that true love could despise all vulgar protestations at such a moment.

Ginevra would have made a noble woman had her mother been capable of guiding her studies, of enlightening her mind, and bringing into harmony her gifts of nature;

Like all great souls, she found her luxury in strength of feeling,

Adversity is the touchstone of character.

In the comfort that women give there is always a delicacy which has something maternal, foreseeing, and complete about it

she was much the prettiest, the most modest, and, apparently, the least rich among them.