"'What will be the extent of my love for her [Elizabeth Barrett Browning]?' he questioned the first book that fell under his hand, opening it at a random passage. The volume, of all inauspicious ones, turned out to be Cerutti's Italian Grammar.
"He hoped he might come upon a word like 'conjunction' or at least a possessive pronoun. To his amazement his eyes lighted upon the sentence in an exercise for translation:
"'If we love in the other world as we do in this, I shall love thee to eternity.
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