text:  Not _to_ him--for her innate delicacy rendered such vows repugnant to her; but alone by the moon or stars by the cataract and in the lonely lanes and woods she had vowed herself to one alone--had dedicated her virgin beauty (in the spirit of those romances she had fatally devoured) to her "night-harper" with as true devotion as ever did white vestal at the end of her noviciate devote herself alive and dead to the one God