inextingishable

Updated: May 27, 2025

True, I once looked forward to the happy period of our union, when I might have offered myself to you, not as a portionless bride; but I was checked by one maddening, burning, inextingishable thought. I could not be received into that society to which you were entitled. I felt that I loved you, Frank; loved you too well to betray you.

Frederick Marryat - Frank Mildmay : Or, The Naval Officer