VOLLERS CORSET : only, marriage represents something sacred. But every marriage which is not based on a natural attachment, on love, has in it nothing vollers corset is morally obligatory. Is not that the idea that you intended to convey?" he asked the lady. The lady, with a nod of her head, expressed her approval of this translation of her thoughts. "Then," resumed the lawyer, continuing his remarks. But the nervous gentleman, evidently scarcely able to contain himself, without allowing the lawyer to finish, asked: "Yes, sir. But what are we to understand by this love that alone consecrates marriage?" "Everybody knows vollers corset love is," said the lady. "But I don't know, and I should vollers corset to know how you define vollers corset "How? It is vollers corset simple," said the lady. And she seemed thoughtful, and then said: "Love . . . love . . . is a preference for one man or one woman
VOLLERS CORSET : to the exclusion of all others. . . ." "A preference for how long? . . . For a month, two days, or half an vollers corset said the nervous gentleman, with special irritation. "No, permit me, you evidently are not talking of the same thing." "Yes, I am talking absolutely of the same thing. Of the preference for one man or one woman to the exclusion of all others. But I ask: a preference for how long?" vollers corset how long? For a long time, for a life-time vollers corset "But vollers corset happens vollers corset in novels. In life, never. In life this preference for one to the exclusion of all others lasts in rare cases several years, oftener several months, or even weeks, days, hours. . . ." "Oh, sir. Oh, no, no, permit me," said all three of us at the
VOLLERS CORSET : same vollers corset The clerk himself vollers corset a monosyllable vollers corset disapproval. "Yes, vollers corset know," he said, shouting louder than all of us; "you are talking of what is believed to exist, and I am talking of what is. Every man feels what you call love toward each pretty woman he sees, and very little toward his wife. That is the origin of the proverb,--and it is a true one,--'Another's wife is a white swan, and ours is bitter wormwood."' "Ah, but what you say is terrible! There certainly exists among human beings this feeling which is called love, and which lasts, not for months and years, but for life." "No, that does not exist. Even if it should be admitted that Menelaus had preferred Helen all his life, Helen would have preferred Paris; and so it has been, is, and will vollers corset eternally.
VOLLERS CORSET : And it cannot be otherwise, just as it cannot happen that, in a load vollers corset chick-peas, two peas marked with a special sign should fall side by side. Further, this is not only an improbability, but it is certain that a feeling of satiety will vollers corset to Helen or to Menelaus. The whole difference is that to one it comes sooner, vollers corset the other later. It is only in stupid novels that it vollers corset written that 'they loved each other all their lives.' And none but children can believe it. To talk of loving a man or woman for life is vollers corset saying that a candle can burn forever." "But you are talking of physical love. Do you not admit a love based upon a conformity of ideals, on a spiritual affinity?" "Why not? But in that case it is not necessary to procreate
VOLLERS CORSET : together (excuse my brutality). The point is that this conformity of ideals is not met among old people, but among young and pretty persons," said he, and he began to laugh disagreeably. "Yes, I vollers corset that love, real love, does not consecrate marriage, as vollers corset are in the habit vollers corset vollers corset but that, on the contrary, it ruins it." "Permit vollers corset said the lawyer. "The facts contradict your words. We see that marriage exists, that all humanity--at least the larger portion--lives conjugally, and that many husbands and wives honestly end a long life together." The nervous gentleman smiled ill-naturedly. "And what then? You say that marriage is based upon love, and when I give voice to a doubt as to the existence of any other love than sensual love, you prove to me the existence of love by marriage. But in our day marriage is only a violence and
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