"From the very beginning-- from the first moment, I may almost say-- of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
Moldeok gaitzespenezko zimentarria eratu zuten, eta geroko jazoerek horrexen gainean eraiki dute oraingo gaitziritzi aldaezin hau; eta hilabetea ere ez zen ezagutzen zintudala, ezkontzara sekula bultza nintzakeen munduko azken gizona zinela jabetu nintzenean".