1 I love my cousin tenderly and sincerely.
2 We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin.
3 Your arrival, my dear cousin," said she, "fills me with hope.
4 I must say also a few words to you, my dear cousin, of little darling William.
5 Soon after we heard that the poor victim had expressed a desire to see my cousin.
6 She devoted herself to those whom she had been taught to call her uncle and cousins.
7 I tried to calm Ernest; I enquired more minutely concerning my father, and here I named my cousin.
8 I have written myself into better spirits, dear cousin; but my anxiety returns upon me as I conclude.
9 But just at that time I inherited the fortune of my cousin, and my thoughts were turned into the channel of their earlier bent.
10 My cousin," replied I, "it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
11 When I reflect, my dear cousin," said she, "on the miserable death of Justine Moritz, I no longer see the world and its works as they before appeared to me.
12 I will confide this tale of misery and terror to you the day after our marriage shall take place, for, my sweet cousin, there must be perfect confidence between us.
13 I am," said she, "the cousin of the unhappy child who was murdered, or rather his sister, for I was educated by and have lived with his parents ever since and even long before his birth.
14 I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.
15 But death was no evil to me if the loss of Elizabeth were balanced with it, and I therefore, with a contented and even cheerful countenance, agreed with my father that if my cousin would consent, the ceremony should take place in ten days, and thus put, as I imagined, the seal to my fate.