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“He was not ‘in love’ of course; it was one of those unclassified affections of which there are so many.”

“He had been reading in his room, and now he came down and it all seemed to him silly, superficial, flimsy.”

“Indeed he seems to her sometimes made differently from other people, born blind, deaf, and dumb, to the ordinary things, but to the extraordinary things, with an eye like an eagle’s.”

“…he assured him, beyond a shadow of a doubt, by her laugh, her poise, her competence (as a nurse carrying a light across a dark room assures a fractious child), that it was real; the house was full…”

“With stars in her eyes and veils in her hair, with cyclamen and wild violets –“