The count had reached his fifties: a cruel word whose resonance can perhaps be fully appreciated only by a man desperately in love.


La Chartreuse de Parme (The Charterhouse of Parma) (1839), ch. 7

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The count had reached his fifties: a cruel word whose resonance can perhaps be fully appreciated only by a man desperately in love.

The count had reached his fifties: a cruel word whose resonance can perhaps be fully appreciated only by a man desperately in love.

The count had reached his fifties: a cruel word whose resonance can perhaps be fully appreciated only by a man desperately in love.

The count had reached his fifties: a cruel word whose resonance can perhaps be fully appreciated only by a man desperately in love.