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The meaning was, that Paolina's own heart, during those hours of reverie filled with the meditation of her love, during those pourings forth of her confessions of love to her heavenly confidant in her bedside prayers; during her nightly review of the love- passages of the day, her own heart, as it became clearer to her, had revealed to her, that she could not accede to any such proposal as that which, she was well persuaded, the Marchese could alone offer to her; had revealed it to her, not in obedience to any moral principle; not by any what-do-you-take-me-for process of indignant virtue; but by an instinctive feeling irresistible and not to be gainsayed, that the love she had to bestow must possess its object wholly and entirely, or not at all.
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