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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | So far only one incontestable truth has been uttered about love: "This is a great mystery." Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. ...the vigorous tenacity of love, always so much stronger than hate... Now, from the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way - Charles Darnay's way - the way of the love of a woman. Alice could love deeply, but could not talk about it. The perpetual requirement of loving words, looks, and caresses, and misconstruing their absence into absence of love, had been the great trial of her former married life. We are naturally disposed to love what gives us pleasure, and what more pleasing than a beautiful face - when we know no harm of the possessor at least? A little girl loves her bird - Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes. In love affairs, there is no mediator like a merry, simple-hearted child ever ready to cement divided hearts, to span the unfriendly gulf of custom, to melt the ice of cold reserve, and overthrow the separating walls of dread formality and pride. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
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