Not but your amiable frankness, your charming confidence, and your pleasing friendship, are immensely valuable to me;-but love, sincere love, such as you have inspired me with, reuniting all those sentiments, by giving them more energy, cannot, as they do, be satisfied with that tranquillity, that ease of mind, which will allow of comparisons, and even sometimes of preferences.
Ez hain zuzen egiatasun atsegina, fidantzia eztia, adiskidantza sentikorra balioesten ez ditudalako... Amodioa ordea! Amodio benazkoak, zuk sorrarazi didazunaren gisarakoak, biltzen dituelarik sentimendu horiek guztiak, ematen dielarik indar gehiago, ez lekike makurtzen, horiek bezala, konparazioei bide ematen dien, lehentasunak onartzen ere dituen lasaitasun horretara, arimaren hoztasun horretara.