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THE BOND
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ing to him. In spite of his essential simplicity, in spite of his love for her, there was, she felt dimly, too much in him, in life with him, that might give her pain. She tried, therefore, to attain something of his own ease, of that quality which would have been lightness if his essential force, his reality, his will, had been less; but which now seemed to her more an enviable buoyancy and power of resistance to the ills of life.
