Before this unaccountable need of
each other came to us he had talked to me quite freely on this
point, saying of a plain person whose character and gifts he greatly
admired, and whose face he grew to like in consequence: 'But of
course it was not the sort of face one would have wanted to live
with, or to have day after day opposite to one at table; but then
one was not called to that sort of discipline, which would be
martyrdom to me.' Oh, Deryck! Could I have tied Garth to my plain
face? Could I have let myself become a daily, hourly discipline to
that radiant, beauty-loving nature? I know they say, 'Love is
blind.' But that is before Love has entered into his kingdom. Love
desirous, sees only that, in the one beloved, which has awakened the
desire. But Love content, regains full vision, and, as time goes on,
those powers of vision increase and become, by means of daily,
hourly, use,--microscopic and telescopic. Wedded love is not blind.
Bah! An outsider staying with married people is apt to hear what
love sees, on both sides, and the delusion of love's blindness is
dispelled forever.
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