They will not begin by examining the ground they stand on, and questioning whether they have consciences at peace with the steps to rearward.
Having established Life as the coldly malignant element, which induces to what it chastises, a loathing of womanhood, the deputed Mother of Life, ensues, by natural sequence.

And if there be one among women who disturbs the serenity we choose to think our due, she wears for us the sinister aspect of a confidential messenger between Nemesis and the Parcae.

Fleetwood was thus compelled to regard Carinthia as both originally and successively the cause of his internal as well as his exterior discomfort; otherwise those glimpses would have burnt into perpetual stigmas.

He had also to get his mind away from her.

They pleaded against him volubly with the rising of her image into it.
His manager at the mines had sent word of ominous discontent down there.
His presence might be required.