...timacy, in the circle where she lived, and could not but rule, for she was one whose nature was to that of the others as fire to clay. It was at this time that I came to the school, and first saw Mariana . Me she charmed at once, for I was a sentimental child, who, in my early ill health, had been indulged in reading novels, till I had no eyes for the common. It was not, however, easy to approach ...