true reason too often has been that they have married literary amateurs instead of women and wives. Heine was wiser. No one would, of course, pretend that Mathilde was his mate. But, then, what woman could have been? Certainly not that little literary prig he called his "Mouche."
End of this Project Gutenberg Etext of Old Love Stories Retold by Richard Le Gallienne. At present we have only this one chapter/story of this book.