"And I wanted to silence her. I wanted to save her from her fate. For
she is _une des cinq ou six creatures humaines qui naissent, dans
tout un si?cle, pour aimer la v?rit?, et pour mourir sans avoir pu la
faire aimer des autres_. She must suffer terribly if she goes on."
This was a point upon which we differed. He would have given her the
natural joys of a woman--husband, home, children, friends, and only
such intellectual pursuits which are pleasant. _I_ had always hoped to
see her at work in a wider field. But she was one of those rare women
who are born to fulfil both destinies at once, and worthily, if only
circumstances had made it possible for her to combine the two.
Before I had been with him many hours, I began to be sensible of that
difference of feeling on certain subjects which would have made their
union a veritable linking of the past to the future--his belief that
nothing can be better than what has been, and that the old institutions
revised are all that the world wants; and her faith in future
developments of all good ideas, and further discoveries never yet
imagined.
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