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The Tinder-Box

• Author: Maria Thompson Daviess First Published: 2017-11-30
• Genres: Literature Reads: 0
• Words: 50983 Status: Completed
• Score: 5.0 (0)

From the book:All love is a gas, and it takes either loneliness, strength of character, or religion to liquefy it into a condition to be ladled out of us, one to another. There is a certain dangerously volatile state of it; and occasionally people, especially of opposite sexes, try to administer it to each other in that form, with asphyxiation resulting to both hearts. And I'm willing to confess t...