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PART THE SECOND Chapter I
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There is in love, in friendship or in the curiosity that drives us towards a fellow-creature a period of ascendency when nothing can quench1 our enthusiasm. The fire that consumes us must burn itself out; until then, all that we see, all that we discover feeds it and increases it.
We are aware of a blemish2, but we do not see it. We know the weakness that to-morrow perhaps will blight3 our joy, but we do not feel it. We hear the word that ought to deal our hopes a mortal blow; and it does not even touch them!... And our reason, which knows, sees, hears and foresees, remains4 dumb, as though it delighted in these games which bring into play our heart and our capacity for feeling. Besides, to us women this exercise of the emotions is something so delightful5 and so salutary that our will has neither the power nor the inclination6 to check it either in its soberest or its most extravagant7 manifestations8. The influence of the
will would always be commonplace and sordid9 by the side of that generous force which is created by each impulse of the heart or mind.
Upon every person or every idea that arouses our enthusiasm we have just so much to bestow10, a definite sum of energy to expend11, which seems, like that of our body, to have its own time and season. I have known Rose for hardly three months; her picture is still vernal in my heart; nothing can prevent its colours from being radiant with freshness, radiant with
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quench
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delightful
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inclination
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relinquish
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gust
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orchard
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serene
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loathe
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leaven
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indifference
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faculties
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judgments
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excellence
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apron
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fresco
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vault
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lumbering
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wagon
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bridle
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affinity
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humble
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obedience
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longing
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temperament
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subduing
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petals
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placid
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admiration
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misgiving
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marvels
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marvel
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hideous
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voluptuous
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joyous
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distress
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intoxication
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attained
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solitude
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contemplate
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chaos
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antagonistic
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graceful
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dominion
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| 强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 ); 志向; 发送气音; 发 h 音 | |
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