I've been sacrificing so to strange gods that I feel I want to put on record, somehow, my fidelity--fundamentally unchanged after all--to our own.

I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars--of another faith altogether.

There it is--it's done." And then he further explained.

"It took hold of me because the idea of getting her quite out of the way for Chad helps to clear my ground." The young man, at this, bounced about, and it brought them face to face in admitted amusement.

"You want me to marry as a convenience to Chad ?" "No," Strether debated--"HE doesn't care whether you marry or not.