It is
possible that at first she might not be able to hide her grief from you;
then it would be your task to help her win back her peace of mind.
I know something of Schlegel; during the last few years I have seen a
good deal of him. Without being a remarkable personality, there was
something about him that attracted women. They attributed to him all the
qualities which belonged to the heroes of their dreams. Do you
understand me? I can believe that a woman who admired strength and
manliness might see in Schlegel a type of firm, inflexible manhood;
while a woman attracted by tenderness might equally think him capable of
the most yielding gentleness. The secret probably lay in the fact that
this man, who knew so many women, possessed the rare faculty of taking
each one according to her temperament.
Schlegel was a living man; but had he been a portrait, or character in
a novel, Lillie would have fallen in love with him just the same,
because her love was purely of the imagination.
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