I know Rosalie realizes that a good life, not a certain creed, leads to
the goal she seeks, after this phase of existence closes, and she does
not ask you to change your faith. But while she would also believe her
children were on the road to that goal, she would want them to walk
through her path and by her side.
It will be hard to relinquish the woman you love, to-day, for the
children who might not come to-morrow.
Yet I can give you the counsel you asked on this matter only from my
personal observation of similar unions.
I should advise you to try an absence of some duration, and to forget
Rosalie if you can, since you have not yet declared yourself.
Better a little temporary sorrow than a life of discord.
As you grow older your religion will, in all probability, gain a
stronger ascendency over your nature, and the church to which you belong
is very tenacious in its hold upon its members.
Rosalie is not of a yielding nature, and as I said before, she is more
devoted to her church than most young women of the day.
The physical phases of your love blind you now.
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