Suddenly she said to him with extraordinary beauty: "I engage myself to you forever."The beauty was in everything, and he could have separated nothing—couldn't have thought of her face as distinct from the whole joy. Yet her face had a new light. "And I pledge you—I call God to witness!—every spark of my faith; I give you every drop of my life.
-Henry James
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