first love

Could this be love?—pure, first love for a shopkeeper's daughter.

He thought how he would tell her . . . that his love for her had fallen off through his own unworthiness, and had returned to one who was in all respects less perfect than she, but who in old days, as she well knew, had been his first love.

He had a very strong and faithful attachment for places: Chatham, I think, being his first love in this respect.