[ Though...Ah, he would struggle to say it aloud. He has not left his loyalty behind. Maker, no. But he has found - it must be said - that love of country, which previously he'd taken as the grandest of all sustenance, is rather weak gruel compared to love of Bastien. And again, he knows he's in the first flush of infatuation, that it will all turn less floaty and perfect later...But. ]
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[ Though...Ah, he would struggle to say it aloud. He has not left his loyalty behind. Maker, no. But he has found - it must be said - that love of country, which previously he'd taken as the grandest of all sustenance, is rather weak gruel compared to love of Bastien. And again, he knows he's in the first flush of infatuation, that it will all turn less floaty and perfect later...But. ]
My love for her, after all, was chaste.