you in the brief moment of passing. Your

nature is not of those which are instantly legible.

As an abstract power, it has wrought in my life

and it continually moves my heart with desires

which are unsatisfactory because so vague and

ignorant. Let me offer you, personally, my gratitude,

my earnest friendship: you would laugh if

I were now to offer more."

Stay! here is another fragment, more reckless in tone:

"I want to find the woman whom I can love—who