Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Chapter 5: finding a friend., page 74

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Table of Contents:

Chapter 1 : Margaret Fuller Ossoli — Introductory.

Chapter 2 : Hereditary traits.

Chapter 5 : finding a friend.

Chapter 11 : Brook Farm .

Chapter 13 : business life in New York. ( 1844 - 1846 .)

Chapter 14 : European travel. ( 1846 - 1847 .)

Chapter 15 : marriage and motherhood. ( 1847 - 1850 .)

Chapter 17 : closing scenes.

Chapter 19 : personal traits.

Bibliographical Appendix: works of Margaret Fuller Ossoli .

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[74] does not quite come home to me, though this does,

I could not love thee, sweet,¹ so much,
Loved I not honor more. ...

Do not, I implore you, whether from pride or affection, wish to exile me from the dark hour. The manly mind might love best in the triumphant hour; but the woman could no more stay from the foot of the cross than from the transfiguration.²

1 Thus in the Ms.

2 Ms. (W. H. C.)

Hougton, Mifflin and Company, 1890.

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