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He knew nothing by his son, who kept his own counsel; he only learnt a few particulars from Benedetta at intervals when emotion left her defenceless; and that marriage in which he had for a moment espied the much-needed alliance between old and new Rome, that unconsummated marriage filled him with despair, as if it were indeed the defeat of every hope, the final collapse of the dream which had filled his life.
He knew nothing by his son, who kept his own counsel; he only learnt a few particulars from Benedetta at intervals when emotion left her defenceless; and that marriage in which he had for a moment espied the much-needed alliance between old and new Rome, that unconsummated marriage filled him with despair, as if it were indeed the defeat of every hope, the final collapse of the dream which had filled his life.
A strange sense of comfort stole over her. When she had written her letter to Roger, retracting the promise she had given him, she would be free free to belong wholly to the man she loved. Though they might never be together, though their love must remain for ever unconsummated, still in her loneliness she would know herself utterly and entirely his.
She was under the delusion that lovers' love was a reprehensible egoism. Her heart had never had place for it; and thus her nature was unconsummated, and the torment of a haunting insufficiency accompanied her sweetest hours, ready to mislead her in all but very clearest actions. She saw, or she divined, much of this struggle; but the vision of it was fitful, not consecutive.
She was not a woman to find happiness very easily, and he himself had nothing to offer her except a love that must always be forbidden, unconsummated. In God's Name, then, if Maryon Rooke could give her happiness, what right had he to stand in the way? By the time the taxi had brought him to the door of Kitty's house, his decision was taken. He would clear out see as little of Nan as possible.
Yet it was characteristic of Sara that no other alternative presented itself to her. Now that she was sure Garth cared for her whether their mutual love must remain for ever unfulfilled, unconsummated, or not she knew that she could never give herself to any other man. She folded and sealed the letter, and then sat quietly contemplating the consequences that it might entail.
It took the colour of true romance from its unlikelihood. Peter turned on the light, and drawing paper to him, began to write. "Lovely Lady," the letter began, and as if the words had been an incantation, the room was full and palpitating with his stored-up dreams. They came waking and crowding to fill out the measure of his unconsummated passion, and they had all one face and one likeness.
But men before me though not so far gone, perhaps have transmitted to the world the songs that rose in their hearts as a result of unconsummated, even unrequited, love. Who knows? That, too, may come just in time. I may write one more song." Before her mind's eye there sprang out the full picture of her part in such a triumph. Was it not she who would virtually be the creative force?
She was under the delusion that lovers' love was a reprehensible egoism. Her heart had never had place for it; and thus her nature was unconsummated, and the torment of a haunting insufficiency accompanied her sweetest hours, ready to mislead her in all but very clearest actions. She saw, or she divined, much of this struggle; but the vision of it was fitful, not consecutive.
Difficult treading! But so the habits of a lifetime for once chimed in with its professions. Even as he stood pitying he roughed out another set of shifts. Prosper and his unconsummated marriage might be set aside the fool, he thought with a chuckle, deserved it. There remained Galors. He would get the girl married to a mesne of the abbey, or stay! he would marry her elsewhere and get a dowry.
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