Does a woman not love when the man’s hardness to her drives her to drown herself?
 Wilkie Collins, Armadale (1864). copy citation

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Author Wilkie Collins
Source Armadale
Topic hardness love
Date 1864
Language English
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“the seeing his eyes moisten, the hearing his voice tremble, while I was deceiving him, shook me in that way. I have seen handsomer men by hundreds, cleverer men by dozens. What can this man have roused in me? Is it Love? I thought I had loved, never to love again. Does a woman not love when the man’s hardness to her drives her to drown herself? A man drove me to that last despair in days gone by. Did all my misery at that time come from something which was not Love? Have I lived to be five-and-thirty, and am I only feeling now what Love really is?—now, when it is too late?” source