“ it is with love without trouble alone that we can be happy. ”
Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847). copy citation
| Author | Alexandre Dumas |
|---|---|
| Source | The Vicomte de Bragelonne |
| Topic | love trouble |
| Date | 1847 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2609/pg2609-images.html |
Context
“at least you have not forbidden her to endeavor to discover the secret of these communications under pain of breaking off forever your connections with her, as you have forbidden all who come here before me, and who will come after me."
"Dear marquise, how unjust you are, and how little do you know what you are doing in thus exclaiming against mystery; it is with mystery alone we can love without trouble; it is with love without trouble alone that we can be happy. But let us return to ourselves, to that devotion of which you were speaking, or rather let me labor under a pleasing delusion, and believe this devotion is love."
"Just now," repeated the marquise, passing over her eyes a hand that might have been a model for the graceful contours of antiquity;”
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