Absence... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.


John Halifax, Gentleman (1856)


Absence... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Absence... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Absence... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.

Absence... smothers into decay a rootless fancy but often nourishes the least seed of a true affection into full-flowering love.