Perhaps. But they explain the
fact that although she was happy in a way, she still had many
aspirations which were not only unsatisfied, but which, without meaning
it unkindly, you daily managed to crush.
Lillie never blamed others. When she found that you did not understand
the things she cared for, she immediately tried to think she was in the
wrong, and her well-balanced nature helped her to conquer her own
predilections.
She was happy because she willed to be happy. Once and for all she had
made up her mind that she was the luckiest woman in existence; happy in
every respect; and she was deeply grateful to you.
But in the depths of her heart--so deeply buried that perhaps it never
rose to the surface even in the form of a dream--lay that secret
something which led to the present misfortune.
I know nothing of her relations with Schlegel, but I think I may venture
to say that they were chiefly limited to intercourse of the soul; and
for that reason they were so fatal.
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