text:  But it was in our quiet and lonely hours that I saw the still more captivating aspects of her nature; when neither the splendid Countess de Tourville nor the woman of brilliant conversation was before me but an innocent and loving girl--no Armida no dazzling mistress of the spells which intoxicate the heart by bewildering the mind; but a sweet and guileless creature in the first bloom of being full of nature full of simplicity full of truth