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It is not quiet, is not ease, But something deeper far than these: The separation that is here is of the grave. -WORDSWORTH (_Elegiac Poems_).
If a woman, being in love, gain thereby a certain intuition into the character of the man she loves, the thousand contradictory emotions of that unrestful state, its despairs, angers, jealousies, its unreasonable susceptibilities, all combine to obscure her judgment; so that, at the same time she knows him better than anyone else can, and yet can be harsher, more unjust to him than the rest of the world.