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OCTOBER 27.

I could tear open my bosom with vexation to think how little we are capable

of influencing the feelings of each other. No one can communicate to me those

sensations  of  love,  joy,  rapture,  and  delight  which  I  do  not  naturally  possess;

and, though my heart may glow with the most lively affection, I cannot make the

happiness of one in whom the same warmth is not inherent.

OCTOBER 27: Evening.

I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but

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without her I have nothing.

OCTOBER 30.

One hundred times have I been on the point of embracing her. Heavens! what

a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet

not dare to lay hold of it! And laying hold is the most natural of human instincts.

Do not children touch everything they see? And I!