Red and Love Are Not the Same Thing at Bottom

This unhappy man had made the very principle of his life to consist in the pursuit and systematic exercise of revenge. When, by its completest triumph and consummation, that evil principle was left with no further material to support it, there was no more devil's work on earth for him to do. He positively withered up, shrivelled away and almost vanished from mortal sight like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun. It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry whether red and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another. Philosophically considered, therefore, the two passions