Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Elizabeth Bowen
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  1. A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

  2. If they should only be ill, ' she said, 'there would be so many little things we could do for them. It does seem in a kind of a way an opportunity. I often think it is only when a man is ill that he...

  3. Livvy noted there seemed some communal feeling between the married: any wife could be faintly rude to anyone else's husband.

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  5. And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion. Something of the trees in their intimacy of shadow was shared by the husband and wife and...

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