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!
Yo deseaba no amarle -el lector sabe el esfuerzo que realicé para extirpar mi amor- y, sin embargo, ahora que le veía, la pasión desbordaba, impetuosa y fuerte.