The things we do!

If I had observed the laws, I wouldn't have you here
now, this morning."
"You'll not have me long. If I despise you as a man without
chivalry, I still more do so because you've neither ambition nor
any sense of morals."
"You go on to improve me. I thank you, Mademoiselle--Eleazar was
right. I heard him. I like you as 'Mademoiselle.'"
"What difference?" she flared out. "We are opposed at all angles
of the human compass. There is no common meeting ground between
us. Let me go."
He looked at her full in the face, his own features softened,
relenting for a time, as though her appeal had touched either his
mental or his moral nature. Then slowly, as he saw the excellence
of her, standing there, his face dropped back into its iron mold.
"You are a wonderful woman," he said, "wonderful. You set me on
fire--and it's only eight o'clock in the morning. I could crush
you--I could tear you to pieces. I never saw your like, nor ever
shall. Let you go? Yes! When I'm willing to let my blood and
soul go.


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