Love \u2014 but not marriage. Marriage means a four-post bed and papa and mamma between eleven and twelve. Love is aspiration: transparencies, colour, light, a sense of the unreal. But a wife \u2014 you know all about her \u2014 who her father was, who her mother was, what she thinks of you and her opinion of the neighbours over the way. Where, then, is the dream?<\/p>\n
George Moore<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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