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enough that this was only half the story. It was because a certain
ardour took possession of her-a sense of the earnestness of his
affection and a delight in his personal qualities. He was better
than any one else. This supreme conviction had filled her life for
months, and enough of it still remained to prove to her that she could
not have done otherwise. The finest-in the sense of being the
subtlest-manly organism she had ever known had become her property,
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exquisite instrument she had now to reckon with. She lost herself in
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drama of their life. He said to her one day that she had too many
ideas and that she must get rid of them. He had told her that already,
before their marriage; but then she had not noticed it: it had come
back to her only afterwards. This time she might well have noticed it,
because he had really meant it. The words had been nothing
superficially; but when in the light of deepening experience she had
looked into them they had then appeared portentous. He had really
meant it-he would have liked her to have nothing of her own but her
pretty appearance. She had known she had too many ideas; she had
more even than he had supposed, many more than she had expressed to
him when he had asked her to marry him. Yes, she had been
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