"The images that haunted me at home and abroad, in her absence and her presence, gradually coalesced into one shape, and gave birth to an incessant train of latent palpitations and indefinable hopes"
Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 [First Part]
First part published in 1799; second in 1800. Reading and transcribing text from Charles Brockden Brown,  <u>Three Gothic Novels</u>. New York: Library of America,1998.