testrum

Updated: June 9, 2025

But if to love is to be possessed with madness, to lose all taste of life when hope refuses itself, to meditate frantic follies, to deem it inconceivable that this woman should ever lose her dominion over me, or another reign in her stead, then my passion falls short of the true testrum, and I am only dallying with fancies which might spring up as often as I encountered a charming girl.

George Gissing - Born in Exile