id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt chapter-023 chapter-023 .txt text/plain 5183 262 79 When we had donewhen two sheets were covered with the language of a strongly-adherent affection, a rooted and active gratitude(once, for all, in this parenthesis, I disclaim, with the utmost scorn, every sneaking suspicion of what are called "warmer feelings:" women do not entertain these "warmer feelings" where, from the commencement, through the whole progress of an acquaintance, they have never once been cheated of the conviction that, to do so would be to commit a mortal absurdity: nobody ever launches into Love unless he has seen or dreamed the rising of Hope's star over Love's troubled waters)when, then, I had given expression to a closely-clinging and deeply-honouring attachmentan attachment that wanted to attract to itself and take to its own lot all that was painful in the destiny of its object; that would, if it could, have absorbed and conducted away all storms and lightnings from an existence viewed with a passion of solicitudethen, just at that moment, the doors of my heart would shake, bolt and bar would yield, Reason would leap in vigorous and revengeful, snatch the full sheets, read, sneer, erase, tear up, re-write, fold, seal, direct, and send a terse, curt missive of a page. ./cache/chapter-023.txt ./txt/chapter-023.txt