There are secret humiliations to which no man would submit, as such, but from which love, when it is real, can take away the sting and the poison. (Francis Marion Crawford)

There are secret humiliations to which no man would submit, as such, but from which love, when it is real, can take away the sting and the poison.

Francis Marion Crawford

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