[The Purchase Price by Emerson Hough]@TWC D-Link bookThe Purchase Price CHAPTER IX 25/28
I reckon maybe it's for both." "Yes, it is for both." "No.
I'll not admit it!" he blazed out.
"If I've been strong enough to pull you down, I'm strong enough to carry you up again. Only, don't force the worst part of me to the front all the time." "A gentle wooer, indeed! And yet you blame me that I can not see a man's side in a case like this." "But in God's name, why should a man see any but a man's side of it? Things don't go by reason, after all.
The world goes, I reckon, because there is a man's side to it.
Anyhow, I am as I am. Whatever you do here, whatever you are, don't try to wheedle me, nor ask me to see your side, when there is only one side to this. If any man ever lifted hand or eye to you, I'd kill him.
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