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CHAPTER XXXVIII. — ALARIC TUDOR TAKES A WALK
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There is, undoubtedly1, a propensity2 in human love to attach itself to excellence3; but it has also, as undoubtedly, a propensity directly antagonistic4 to this, and which teaches it to put forth5 its strongest efforts in favour of inferiority. Watch any fair flock of children in which there may be one blighted6 bud, and you will see that that blighted one is the mother's darling. What filial affection is ever so strong as that evinced by a child for a parent in misfortune? Even among the rough, sympathies of schoolboys, the cripple, the sickly one, or the orphan7 without a home, will find the warmest friendship and a stretch of kindness. Love, that must bow and do reverence8 to superiority, can protect and foster inferiority; and what is so sweet as to be able to protect?
Gertrude's love for her husband had never been so strong as when she learnt that that love must now stand in the place of all other sympathies, of all other tenderness. Alaric told her of his crime, and in his bitterness he owned that he was no longer worthy9 of her love. She answered by opening her arms to him with more warmth than ever, and bidding him rest his weary head upon her breast. Had they not taken each other for better or for worse? had not their bargain been that they would be happy together if such should be their lot, or sad together if God should so will it?—and would she be the first to cry off from such a bargain?
It seldom happens that a woman's love is quenched10 by a man's crime. Women in this respect are more enduring than men; they have softer sympathies, and less acute, less selfish,
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perfectly
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