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A sense of having been decoyed by some world-old conspiracy into this bondage of body and soul filled her with despair. If marriage was the slow life-...more

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Their long years together had shown him that it did not so much matter if marriage was a dull duty, as long as it kept the dignity of duty: lapsing fr...more

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He could not imagine being bored by Susy -- or trying to escape from her if he were. He could not think of her as an enemy, or even as an accomplice, ...more

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Do you know, I began to see what marriage is for. It’s to keep people away from each other. Sometimes I think that two people who love each other can ...more

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As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were alwa...more

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With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social in...more

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If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?"Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced wit...more