But we can love it and cherish it all the same." "You are happy indeed if you can shut your eyes at the dictates of your heart!" retorted Gorgo, but she sighed.

"Happy are they and much to be envied who can compel their judgment to silence when it is grief to hear its voice.

I--I who have been taught to think, cannot abandon my judgment; it builds up a barrier between me and the happiness that beckons me.

And yet, so long as truth remains the highest aim of man, I will bless the faculty of seeking it with all the powers of my mind.
My betrothed husband, like yours, is a Christian; and I would I could accept his creed as unflinchingly as you; but it is not in my nature to leap into a pool when I know that it is full of currents and whirlpools .-- However, the present question has to do with you and not with me.

Marcus, no doubt, will be happy to have won you; but if he does not succeed in gaining his mother's consent he will not continue happy you may rely upon it.