The innermost fire of my own dim soul out- If he is hiding in the cover!

quite to nought to be adventuring among them

After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, the protagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her children behind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness wherein we circle on our fate "I!"—"How can you treat me so, and love me?