[Love Eternal by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookLove Eternal CHAPTER XI 16/26
To begin with, you do not, and never will, care for Juliette, and she does not, and never will, care for you.
Your natures, ah! they are quite different.
You have something big in the you, and Juliette--well, she has not.
Marriage with her would be for you a misery, and for Juliette a misery also, since what have you in common? Besides, even if it were otherwise, do you think I would allow such a thing, with you so young and in my charge? Bah! be good friends with that pretty girl, and go hunt for flowers with her as much as you like, for nothing will ever come of it.
Only, bet no more in kisses, for they are dangerous, and sparks sometimes set fire to haystacks." "Indeed, I will not," exclaimed Godfrey with fervour. "There, then, that trouble is finished." (Here, although he did not know it, the Pasteur was mistaken.) "And now, as to the rest of this letter.
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