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"A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man, because / love is more the study and business of her life. " -- _Washington / Irving._
It was about this time that Garth began to feel very uncomfortable. / Hitherto his quiet, well-assured life, with its eight-and-twenty / years of healthful work and activity, its moderate aims and small / ambitions, had been singularly free from conflict. Mental / disturbance, the weariness of self-argument, the harass of stormy / passions, had been wholly unknown to him. In his ordered existence / the pains and penalties of a lover's martyrdom had not vexed him.