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"Sacrifice?" he cried. "What sacrifice, when I have spent the past weeks agonizing over losing you? I have worried about your reason for rejecting me until I could not concentrate on my work! I thought of my poverty and of my mother's difficult temperament, of my plain face and my dull conversation, my lack of poetic talent and my undistinguished career, and - driven to the point of insanity - even of another man."