The Parisians, 第 1 巻

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115 ページ - On the contrary, people who did not know him well said " that he had more head than heart," and the character of his pursuits, as of his writings, was certainly not that of a sentimentalist. He had not thus visited the tomb till Richard King had been placed within it. Yet his love for his aunt was unspeakably greater than that which he could have felt for her husband. Was it then, the husband that he so much more acutely mourned ; or was there something that, since the husband's death, had deepened...
89 ページ - ... of a world ? I feel as if love in a woman must destroy her rights of equality — that it gives to her a sovereign even in one who would be inferior to herself if her love did not glorify and crown him. Ah ! if I could but merge this terrible egotism which oppresses me, into the being of some one who is what I would wish to be were I man ! I would not ask him to achieve fame. Enough if I felt that he was worthy of it, and happier methinks to console him when he failed than to triumph with him...

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