His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told… - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told me - that with himself also, the early freshness of youth had gone by, & that throughout it he had not been able to love any woman - that he loved now for the first time & the last.