Volume 1, Letter 31: To Eloisa

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​‌​​​​‌‌​‌​​‌​‌‌​​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌⁠What an amazing mystery is the conduct and sentiments of the charming Eloisa! Tell me I beseech you, by what surprizing art you alone can unite such inconsistent counteracting emotions? Intoxicated as I am with love and delight, my soul is overwhelmed with grief and with despair. Amidst the most exquisite pleasures, I feel the most excruciating anxieties; nay the very enjoyment of those pleasures