You must charge me for the inconvenience as
well as for the damage."
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"An aristocrat cannot be a lover."
"One cannot serve at once the intricacies of the wider issues of
life and the intricacies of another human being. I do not mean that
one may not love. One loves the more because one does not
concentrate one's love. One loves nations, the people passing in
the street, beasts hurt by the wayside, troubled scoundrels and
university dons in tears. . . .
"But if one does not give one's whole love and life into a woman's
hands I do not think one can expect to be loved.
"An aristocrat must do without close personal love. . . ."
This much was written at the top of a sheet of paper. The writing
ended halfway down the page. Manifestly it was an abandoned
beginning. And it was, it seemed to White, the last page of all
this confusion of matter that dealt with the Second and Third
Limitations. Its incompleteness made its expression perfect. . . .
There Benham's love experience ended. He turned to the great
business of the world.
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