Believe me, I wanted to say. I've tried. Oh, and also, I'm wretchedly in love with you. Keep it light.
Almost all Christians being wretchedly enslaved to blindness and ignorance, which the priests are so far from preventing or removing, that they blacken the darkness, and promote the delusion: wisely foreseeing that the people (like cows, which never give down their milk so well as when they are gently stroked), would part with less if they knew more.
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.
The best characters are always wretchedly flawed