The things we do!

"I lack many things, Madam," he resumed at length. "I do not lack
honesty even with myself, and I do not lie even to a woman. That's
the trouble. I have not lied to you. Come now, let us understand.
I suppose it's because I've been alone so much. Civilization does
not trouble us much back there. These are my people--they love
me--I hold them in my hand so long as I live up to their standards.
Maybe I've thrown them away, right now,--my people."
"You are not living up to your standards."
"No, but I can not make you understand me. I can not make you
understand that the great thing of life isn't the foolish ambition
of a man to get into a state legislature, to make laws, to see them
enforced. It isn't the original purpose of man to get on in
politics or business, or social regard. Man is made to love some
woman. Woman is made to be loved by some man. That's life. It's
all of it. I know there's nothing else."
"I have heard my share of such talk, perhaps, in this or that
corner of the world," she answered, with scorn.


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