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[hunt_theheart]

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*gaily changing tactics* And if thou hadst but wife to comfort thee--ay, wife and children both, within a house well suited to thy taste and every want--wouldst thou be satisfied with nothing more?

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[jarndyceheir]

"I cannot imagine being dissatisfied, so, provided the wife was the one who is my heart's choice."

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[hunt_theheart]

*tilts his head* And never to discourse with friend again? Not Tom, not I, not kind young Mrs. Strange? No work, no life but wife and house and babes?

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[jarndyceheir]

"I would not choose it, perhaps, if I could have both. But nor would I imagine my wife would be content were I to confer upon other women what should, by rights, be hers. I would not wound her so, even if I wished to stray in such a manner of my own desire."

[hunt_theheart]

*all but impatient with this focus on the bodily expression of love, for all his humor's good* Why must thou speak of naught and pillicocks? *there's Elizabethan euphemism for you* There's more to love than congress with a maid--or with a man, wherever thou dost turn. I love dear Rosalind, but would protest an she suggested I should lie with her.