1 She welcomed me with the greatest affection.
2 A serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy.
3 Your arrival, my dear cousin," said she, "fills me with hope.
4 These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings.
5 Remember me with affection, should you never hear from me again.
6 The disquisitions upon death and suicide were calculated to fill me with wonder.
7 In these last moments I feel the sincerest gratitude towards those who think of me with kindness.
8 I shall relate events that impressed me with feelings which, from what I had been, have made me what I am.
9 As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed.
10 I gradually saw plainly the clear stream that supplied me with drink and the trees that shaded me with their foliage.
11 For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.
12 It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy.
13 I postponed this attempt for some months longer, for the importance attached to its success inspired me with a dread lest I should fail.
14 Thus I relieve thee, my creator," he said, and placed his hated hands before my eyes, which I flung from me with violence; "thus I take from thee a sight which you abhor.
15 I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.
16 The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition.
17 My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
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