A kind of hopeless affection he seemed to feel for her: and the essential remoteness remained the same. he was hopeless at the very core of him, and he wanted to remain hopeless. he rather hated hope. " une immense espérance a traversé la terra (a great hope passed over the earth)," he read somewhere, and his comment was: "and it darned-well drowned everything worth having."

d.h. lawrence's lady chatterley's lover.