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Updated: May 21, 2025
She is a woman who never in her life cared for more than two things." "And these two things are " "The excitement of the gaming-table, and the love of your worthless friend, Sir Reginald Eversleigh." "Does she really love my friend?" "She does. She loves him as few men deserve to be loved and least of all that man. She loves him, although she knows that her affection is unreturned, unappreciated.
If my love should be unreturned, I may strive to endure the blow, I may mix with the world, I may seem to occupy myself in the aims of others; but my heart will be broken! Let us talk of this no more; you have surprised my secret, though it must have betrayed itself.
Hester groaned in heart over the remembrance of Sylvia's words, 'I can niver forgive him the wrong he did to me, that night when Hester had come, and clung to her, making the sad, shameful confession of her unreturned love. What could ever bring these two together again?
Hester groaned in heart over the remembrance of Sylvia's words, 'I can niver forgive him the wrong he did to me, that night when Hester had come, and clung to her, making the sad, shameful confession of her unreturned love. What could ever bring these two together again?
"And, nevertheless, you believe that your affection would not be unreturned?" "I thought so once; I doubt now, yet, in doubting, hope. But why do you alarm me with these questions? You, too, forebode that in this visit I may lose her forever?" "If you fear that, tell her so, and perhaps her answer may dispel your fear." "What! now, already, when she has scarcely known me a month.
He had no childhood; his salad days were bitter herbs; his later life was one wild tempest of ambition frustrated, of love unsated or unreturned, of friendship misprized or thought to be misprized. And then his deafness!
Poor Walter! he will think I cannot feel for his unreturned affection, when I know too well its pang; and why should I not be happy with him, why live on in lingering wretchedness, when, perhaps as a wife, new duties might rouse me from this lethargy?
Fortunate or unfortunate, Gerald was still lucky in his freedom to hazard it with chance and fate. Freedom to love! That alone was blessed, though that love be unreturned. Without that right the right to love a man was no man. Lansing had been correct: such a man was a spectre in a living world the ghost of what he had been. But there was no help for it, and there Lansing had been in the wrong.
The family assembled after supper: The Assessor puts the question What is the bitterest affliction? Jacobi. Unreturned love. Petrea. Not to know what one shall be. Eva. To have offended some one that one loves beyond reconciliation. The Mother. I am of Eva's opinion; I think nothing can be more painful. Louise. The Father. What is amiss with Louise? Elise, we must know what it is!
Tom's blood began to fire up as he gazed; nor, with all his outward calm; was Kenelm insensible of that proud beat of the heart which is aroused by the fierce joy of combat. Tom struck out first and a blow was parried, but not returned; another and another blow, still parried, still unreturned.
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