Will any man love the daughter if he has not loved the mother?

The art of being a grandfather, Mr Best gan murmur. L’art d’�tre grand...

Will he not see reborn in her, with the memory of his own youth added, another image?

Do you know what you are talking about? Love, yes. Word known to all men. Amor vero aliquid alicui bonum vult unde et ea quae concupiscimus ...

His own image to a man with that queer thing genius is the standard of all experience, material and moral. Such an appeal will touch him. The images of other males of his blood will repel him.

He will see in them grotesque attempts of nature to foretell or to repeat himself.