“Well he knew she was one of those women who, giving themselves, give wholly, reckoning not the cost; love of body and of soul, strength of arm in the daily task, the unmeasured devotion of a spirit that does not waver. So precious the gift appeared to him that he dared not ask it.”

—  Louis Hémon, book Maria Chapdelaine

Source: Maria Chapdelaine (1913), Ch. 5, p. 76

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