The things we do!

But what defeat? Come, your speech
sounds more personal than professional. What can you possibly
think yourself to be, but my new jailer?"
"I'm not so sure. Look, each turn of the wheels takes us farther
away from the places where society goes on in its own grooves. Out
here we manage the world in our own ways."
Unconsciously the eyes of both of them turned down the river, along
which the boat now steadily continued its course. He went on
somberly.
"Out there," he said, pointing toward the west, "out beyond the big
river, there's a place where the wilderness sweeps. Out there the
law is that of the old times. It is far away."
"How dare you speak in such way to me?" she half whispered, low and
tense. "And you claim manhood!"
"No," he said, sighing. "I--claim nothing. I deny nothing. I
assert nothing--except that I'm going to be not your Jailer, but
your keeper. Yes, I'm going to hold you, keep you! You shall not
get away. Why," he added, pacing apart for a moment.


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