1 We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages.
2 I gnashed my teeth and ground them together, uttering a groan that came from my inmost soul.
3 After he had been employed thus about an hour, the young woman joined him and they entered the cottage together.
4 I provided myself with a sum of money, together with a few jewels which had belonged to my mother, and departed.
5 He besought me, therefore, to leave my solitary isle and to meet him at Perth, that we might proceed southwards together.
6 Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.
7 You were attached to each other from your earliest infancy; you studied together, and appeared, in dispositions and tastes, entirely suited to one another.
8 They seemed much surprised at my appearance, but instead of offering me any assistance, whispered together with gestures that at any other time might have produced in me a slight sensation of alarm.
9 He had already bought a farm with his money, on which he had designed to pass the remainder of his life; but he bestowed the whole on his rival, together with the remains of his prize-money to purchase stock, and then himself solicited the young woman's father to consent to her marriage with her lover.