The things we do!

"You seek your own
success, although your path lies over a woman's disgrace and ruin."
"Haven't you ever thought of the other side of this at all? Can't
a woman ever think of mercy to a man? Can't she ever blame herself
just for being Eve, for being the incarnate temptation that she is
to any real man? Can't she see what she is to him? You talk about
ruin--I tell you it's ruin here, sure as we are born, for one or
both of us. I reckon maybe it's for both."
"Yes, it is for both."
"No. I'll not admit it!" he blazed out. "If I've been strong
enough to pull you down, I'm strong enough to carry you up again.
Only, don't force the worst part of me to the front all the time."
"A gentle wooer, indeed! And yet you blame me that I can not see a
man's side in a case like this."
"But in God's name, why should a man see any but a man's side of
it? Things don't go by reason, after all. The world goes, I
reckon, because there is a man's side to it. Anyhow, I am as I am.


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