Hello:

Do you still that
"feel the more profoundly"
is still contemporary usage?

Of course, I appreciate its elegance ...

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Was it the better to deceive them both? Or did she wish by a sort of
voluptuous stoicism to feel the more profoundly the bitterness of the
things she was about to leave?

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
http://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/bovary/section22.html