The Irrational Knot; Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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He was clearly welcome to philander. Recovering his poise at once, he began, in his finest voice, " You need not chide me. There can be no mistake on my part now. You can entangle me without fear; and I can love without hope. Ned is an unrepealed statute of Forbiddance. Go on, Mrs. Conolly. Play with me: it will amuse you. And — spiritless wretch that I am! — it will help me to live until you throw me away, crushed again." "You seem to have been quite comfortable without me : at least you look ...extremely well. I suspect you are becoming a little lazy and attached to your dinner. Your old haughtiness seems to have faded into a mere habit. It used to be the most active principle in you. Are you quite sure that nobody else has been helping you to live, as you call it ? " 237 The Irrational Knot "Helping me to forget, you mean. No, not one. Time has taught me the way to vegetate; and so I no longer need to live. As you have remarked, I have habits, not active principles. But one at least of these principles is blossoming again even as I speak.
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