The Daily Dispatch: January 6, 1865., [Electronic resource]

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Falling in love.

--"Because" is laughed at as a woman's reason for doing a foolish thing, but there never was a man or woman who could give any other for falling in love. Any attempt to prove otherwise only proves they did not fall in love at all. Some people fall in love with the swiftness and force of an electric shock, while with others the process is so gradual that the fact is not discovered until some accident or emergency reveals it to the interior perception. Second love succeeds first love much more easily than is generally imagined. A sigh or so; a tear or two; a sudden fondness for Byron; a neglect, for once, of one's favorite dish at the dinner table, a determination to inquire which is the easiest mode of ending life, drowning or prussic acid, a love of solitude and moonlight; a feeling that nobody can understand, or sympathize, or appreciate you, and then a revival of spirits and a conviction that it is wrong to commit suicide; and then--second, or third, or fourth love even, as the case may be — perhaps the unhappy individual gets married, and the attachment remains permanent; but if it be so, is it from force of habit, a sense of duty, or because the subject has really and truly fallen in love for the first time; the rest being all illusions ?-- Jennie June.