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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 what love is," said the lady.
"But I don't know, and I should like to know how you define it."
"How? It is very simple," said the lady.
And she seemed thoughtful, and then said:
"Love . . . love . . . is a preference for one man or one woman to the
exclusion of all others. . . ."
"A preference for how long? . . . For a month, two days, or half an
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