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approached.
He was standing with his hand on the seat, and evidently agitated. His
face was red, a vein in his forehead was swollen, and the muscles of his
cheeks quivered.
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What is this love that consecrates marriage?" he repeated.
What love?" said the lady. "The ordinary love of husband and wife."
And how, then, can ordinary love consecrate marriage?" continued the
nervous gentleman, still excited, and with a displeased air. He seemed
to wish to say something disagreeable to the lady. She felt it, and
began to grow agitated.
"
How? Why, very simply," said she.
The nervous gentleman seized the word as it left her lips.
"No, not simply."
"
Madam says," interceded the lawyer indicating his companion, "that
marriage should be first the result of an attachment, of a love, if
you will, and that, when love exists, and in that case only, marriage
represents something sacred. But every marriage which is not based on
a natural attachment, on love, has in it nothing that is morally
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