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Excerpt from One Life, One Love, Vol. 2: A Novel N 0, she was not; unless gratitude and a placid submission to the decree of Fate mean happiness. She had drifted into this second marriage upon the strong tide of Ambrose Arden's passionate love - a love which had gathered force with each long year of waiting, and which had become a power that no ordinary woman could resist. Such a passion, so exceptional in its patient endurance, its intense concentration, will compel love, or at least the' surrender of liberty, and the submission to woman's destiny, which is, for the most part, to belong to some one stronger than herself. She had submitted to this mastery, and she was grateful for that devoted affection which knew no wavering, which had lost none of its romantic intensity with the waning of the honey moon. No woman could be heedless of such a love as this, from such a man as Ambrose Arden and his wife was deeply touched by his idolatry, and gave him back all that a woman can give whose heart is cold as marble. Tenderness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.