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Letitia. Well my husband, what is your opinion of the married state after a year’s occupation? How does it compare with past journeys into distant lands, the radiance of Paris or Italy’s enduring grandeur?
Doricourt. This retired mode of living is quite inferior to the partial, unpenetrating eye—its pearls, like the oyster’s, require time’s tutelage to gain all their unadulterated pleasures.