CHAPTER IX.
"So she looks into her heart, and lo! Vacucæ sedes et 'mania arcana * * * And the man is himself, and the woman herself, that dream of love is over as everything else is over in life, as flowers and fury, as griefs and pleasures are over."
Thackeray.
"Wir haben lang genug geliebt, und wollen endlich hassen.", George Herwegh.
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ut this "innocent amusement" entails worse consequences than these. It is the high-road to the divorce court, it has brought strife and misery into ten thousand happy homes; truly it is the "abomination that maketh desolation."