Is n't it very plain?
If you have the energy to desire, you have also the energy to reason and to judge.

If you can care to go, you can also care to stay, and staying being the more profitable course, the inspiration, on that side, for a man who has his self-confidence to win back again, should be greater." Roderick, plainly, did not relish this simple logic, and his eye grew angry as he listened to its echo.

"Oh, the devil!" he cried.
Rowland went on.

"Do you believe that hanging about Christina Light will do you any good?
Do you believe it won't?
In either case you should keep away from her.

If it won't, it 's your duty; and if it will, you can get on without it." "Do me good ?" cried Roderick.