text:  He was unable to disengage his thoughts entirely from those feelings of bitter and scorching jealousy which various little indications of coquetry displayed by the evidently coquettish little Puritan damsel and certain marks of desire to seek her presence and parade under her window evinced by the hated Maywood had planted in his heart--and in a jealous and impatient temperament like Gerald's such seed once sown quickly grew up with rank luxuriance and spread on every side imbibing sustenance from every element that approached it living in want of better nourishment upon the very air itself