For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once declared, though not to… - Thomas Hardy

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For the love of men like Fitzpiers is unquestionably of such quality as to bear division and transference. He had indeed once declared, though not to her, that on one occasion he had noticed himself to be possessed by five distinct infatuations at the same time. If this were true, his differed from the highest affection as the lower orders of the animal world differ from advanced organisms, partition causing not death but a multiplied existence.