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He saw Viola master a world vaster than his and knew that he could never have her only for himself, enclose her within the borders of his kingdom.
The marquise for her part perhaps suffered at not being to be both lover and amazon
She was seized at times by a vague need for her and Cosimo's love to be a love on horseback, and running through the trees was no longer enough for her

Cosimo was unhappy; the sense of time passing communicated to him a kind of dissastisfaction with his life

Sooner or later happy events follow sorrowful ones, it's the law of life

He was careful not to make any noise, although he knew that his uncle, when he walked with such animation, was as if deaf and saw only a few inches in front of his feet

He understood this, that associations make man stronger and bring out the individual's best talents, and offer the joy, rarely felt if we remain on our own.
There was a common problem, and to resolve it was important to all.
Whereas when that common problem no longer exists, associations are no longer useful as they were, and it's better to be a man alone and not a leader

When he read Richardson, a tendency already long latent in his soul became almost overwhelming

Thus between Cosimo and the cavalier avvocato arose an understanding, a collaboration that could even be called a kind of friendship, if friendship did not seem an exaggerated term applied to two such unsociable people

There was a lunch, with so much ceremony you could have died of boredom, and the guests had with them a foppish son, a stuffed shirt in a wig

...and I don't know how much of it was paternal anxiety and how much concern for the dynastic consequences; but the two things were now one