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"I have never done that?"
"You--no. Of course, I have been like other men. When I was young--
well, Hermione, after all I am a Frenchman, and though I am of
Normandy, still I passed many years in Paris, as you know."
"All that I understand. But the real thing? Such as I have known?"
"I have never broken my heart for any one, though I have known
agitations. But even those were long ago. And since I was thirty-five
I have never felt really dominated by any one. Before that time I
occasionally passed under the yoke, I believe, like other men. Why do
you fix your eyes on me like that?"
"I was wondering if you could ever pass under the yoke again."
"Honestly, I do not think so. I am not sure. When can one be certain
that one will never be, or do, this or that? Surely,"--he smiled,--
"you are not afraid for me?"
"I do not say that. But I think you have forces in you not fully
exercised even by your work."
"Possibly. But there the years do really step in and count for
something, even for much.


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