Miss Cheyne of Essilmont, Volume 3 by James Grant

Had Goring indeed forgotten or ceased to love her? This was the ever-recurring question in the mind of Alison now, and she recalled the lines of the Spanish song, _Vanse mis amores_, as applicable to herself:

'How could I bear -- how bear disdain, / Who not the slightest favour ever / Received without a blush of pain; / How could I bear disdain? O, never! / One hour of absence, swift and brief, / I could not bear -- how should I bear / A long and tedious age of grief, / An age of grief, of gloom and fear? / O! I shall die without relief, / For I am young, and -- O, sincere.'