Chapter II: Book I: “les”

_“I’m not a young man.... I had studied myself; I had had experience
of myself; I knew how much I loved her, and how happy I should be....
But I had not--I feel it now--sufficiently considered her.... Did I
consider that it was no merit in me, or claim in me, that I loved
her, when everybody must, who knew her?... Did I consider that I took
her--at her age...? I have not found it out before.”_

CHARLES DICKENS--_“The Cricket on the Hearth”_