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LOVE,—AND
THE PHILOSOPHER
MARIE CORELLI
LOVE,—AND
THE PHILOSOPHER
A Study in Sentiment
BY
MARIE CORELLI
AUTHOR OF
“Thelma,” “Barrabas,” “The Sorrows of Satan,”
“The Life Everlasting,” “Innocent,”
“The Young Diana,” etc.
THE RYERSON PRESS
TORONTO
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COPYRIGHT, 1923,
By GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
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LOVE,—AND THE PHILOSOPHER. II
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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| Chapter I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX, XX. |
FOREWORD
THE following story is of the simplest character, purposely so designed.It has no “abnormal” or “neurotic” episodes; no “problems” and no“psychoanalysis.” Its “sentiment” is of an ordinary, everyday type,common to quiet English homes where the “sensational” press finds noadmittance, and where a girl may live her life as innocent of evil as arose;—where even the most selfish of cynical “philosophers” maygradually evolve something better than Self. There are no “thrills,” no“brain storms,” no “doubtful moralities”—no unnatural overstrained“emotionalisms,” whatever. The personages who figure in the tale aredrawn absolutely from life—“still life” I might call it—and are fit tomake the acquaintance of any “Young Person” of either sex. I have hopesthat the “Philosopher,” though selfish, may be liked, when he is known,for his unselfishness,—and that the “Sentimentalist” may waken asister-sympathy among those many charming women, who though wishing tobe gentle and just to their admirers, do not always know their own mindsin affairs of love. Whether my heroine chose the right partner for lifeis for my readers to determine. I myself am not more sure about it thanshe was!
M. C.