There! I've felt about marrying you that it would be a new baptism into a bigger, fresher, purer life--do you see ?' 'Yes--I see.' His tone was doubtful.

'You've tried it before--that idea of bigger interests--a different kind of life--in other ways, Biddy, haven't you ?' 'Oh! in ever so many ways.

Of course, that wasn't only in the sense of love--hero worship, you know.

It was the schemes, ideas, plans for living in the higher part of one.

Tolstoy, Prentice Mulford--that kind of thing....