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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XIV
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But when Tremendous Powers are invoked, we should treat any simple revulsion of our blood as a vice.

The Gods of this world's contests demand it of us, in relation to them, that the mind, and not the instincts, shall be at work.

Otherwise the course of a prudent policy is never to invoke them, but avoid.
The upper class was gained by her intrepidity, her charm, and her elsewhere offending wit, however the case might go.

It is chivalrous, but not, alas, inflammable in support of innocence.

The class below it is governed in estimates of character by accepted patterns of conduct; yet where innocence under persecution is believed to exist, the members animated by that belief can be enthusiastic.


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