I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong!
Non avevo voluto amarlo, avevo fatto quanto stava in me per cacciare dal mio cuore le prime illusioni dell'amore, ma appena lo rivedeva tutte le impressioni si ridestavano in me con nuova forza.