1 I should have confided in him: he would never have forced me to be his mistress.
2 I feared early instilled prejudice: I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences.
3 Stay till he comes, reader; and, when I disclose my secret to him, you shall share the confidence.
4 I learnt so much from himself in an inroad I once, despite his reserve, had the daring to make on his confidence.
5 When I remembered how far I had once been admitted to his confidence, I could hardly comprehend his present frigidity.
6 The confidence he had thought fit to repose in me seemed a tribute to my discretion: I regarded and accepted it as such.
7 This benefit conferred gives you an unlimited claim on my gratitude, and a claim, to a certain extent, on my confidence.
8 Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence.
9 I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.
10 With you I would have ventured much, because I admire, confide in, and, as a sister, I love you; but I am convinced that, go when and with whom I would, I should not live long in that climate.