See?
Those that take objection to Dexie's home-life--particularly to that
immediately preceding her marriage--are reminded that such lives do exist.
When death visits a family, and removes the restraining head, the petty
faults of the remaining inmates are apt to grow apace, unless the Angel of
Death has touched their hearts with divine grace. Lacking this, the
development of character has a downward tendency. It does not make pleasant
reading, but I have not told an impossible tale. But who knows "how the
other half lives?"
The question is--Do you care to know if Dexie has chosen her life as wisely
as she might have done? Would her married life have been happier if she had
married Lancy Gurney? The affection they had for each other was akin to
love; there was a sympathy between them which those who have an intense
love for music can alone understand, and which might have proved a source
of happiness, even during a life-long existence. They might not have
experienced the rapture of heartfelt love, but their lives might have been
more peaceful and contented without it, for deep love often means keen
sorrow.
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