[The Fighting Chance by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fighting Chance CHAPTER II IMPRUDENCE 7/20
What chance has he with the storms which have been brewing for him even before he opened his eyes on earth? Is that a square deal ?" The troubled concentration of her face was reflected now in his own; the wind came whipping and flicking at them from league-wide tossing wastes; the steady thunder of the sea accented the silence. She said: "I suppose everybody has infinite capacity for decency or mischief.
I know that I have.
And I fancy that this capacity always remains, no matter how moral one's life may be.
'Watch and pray' was not addressed to the guilty alone, Mr.Siward." "Oh, yes, of course.
As for the balanced capacity for good and evil, how about the inherited desire for the latter ?" "Who is free from that, too? Do you suppose anybody really desires to be good ?" "You mean most people are so afraid not to be, that virtue becomes a habit ?" "Perhaps.
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