I expect some do marry for love. I-- hope some do.
[It does seem, from what he's seen here, that the arc of human history was bending toward allowing that to become far more of the norm.]
But it isn't what I'd have been used for. [An easy word in context, if odd against the truth of the ring he's wear now.] There would have been a negotiation over land-holdings and businesses, and then I'd have a wife I knew a little to raise the children I'm like to know even less.
[Not a bad life. Not an unpleasant one or a hardship. But not this.]
Please understand, my pulse, how much... more it is, having the pieces of you I have. Having you set yourself to-- trying for me. I don't know what else there could be for you to give.
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[It does seem, from what he's seen here, that the arc of human history was bending toward allowing that to become far more of the norm.]
But it isn't what I'd have been used for. [An easy word in context, if odd against the truth of the ring he's wear now.] There would have been a negotiation over land-holdings and businesses, and then I'd have a wife I knew a little to raise the children I'm like to know even less.
[Not a bad life. Not an unpleasant one or a hardship. But not this.]
Please understand, my pulse, how much... more it is, having the pieces of you I have. Having you set yourself to-- trying for me. I don't know what else there could be for you to give.