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Love surely should be a pleasurable emotion—not something that hurt you by its intensity….
“Darling, you are one of the lilies of the field, aren’t you? You toil not, neither do you spin!”
“The trouble is that the time is going on and on and I’m not doing anything!”
you’ll be patient for the present.
The voice was unusually deep and full.
“I’m not at all anxious to, thank you!
Let her be that to him—yes—an exquisite memory—a thing of beauty and a joy forever….
“But Wickedness doesn’t always flourish,”
“One cannot always turn aside and pass by from the unpleasantnesses of life,
can assure you, mon cher, I have several irons on the fire.
I began to see—not daylight, but the little glimpse of light that one gets in a train when one is about to come out of a tunnel. It is not so much daylight, but the promise of daylight.”
passionate and proud and who loved desperately a man who was incapable of loving her….”
“Have you any idea why I have come here?” “I couldn’t say, I’m sure, until you tell me. I don’t profess to be a mind reader.”
