What it really wishes no lover seems able to say. As a matter of fact,

The endless task which the lover is ever attempting is a search for a
formula for the summation of an infinite series of which love is the
variable.--Few lovers seem to understand this.

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To kindle aspiration in her lover, a woman herself need not be aspiring.
For,

Whatever the talents of a man, they are stimulated by contact with woman.
Since

An elevating influence seems to radiate from women: we have but to come
into the light of their countenances for our own faces to shine as the
sun. Indeed,

Physicists may talk as they like, but lovers know a more subtle and a
more potent force than any yet revealed to them. It has not yet been
named; but for the present it might be called "psychicity". (3)

(3) Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes speaks of "celebricity". See "Over the Tea
Cup"

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If you wish to ascertain the relationship of a youthful pair, watch their
eyes. For