But marriage is not sinful.' 'Men are so wicked.' 'Some of them are.' 'Where is there one that is not steeped in sin over his head ?' 'That applies to women also; doesn't it ?' said the banker petulantly.

He was almost angry because she was introducing a commonplace as to the world's condition into a particular argument as to their daughter's future life,--which he felt to be unfair and illogical.
'Of course it does, Nicholas.

We are all black and grimed with sin, men and women too; and perhaps something more may be forgiven to men because they have to go out into the world and do their work.

But neither one nor the other can be anything but foul with sin;--except,--except--' He was quite accustomed to the religious truth which was coming, and, in an ordinary way, did not object to the doctrine which she was apt to preach to him often.

But it had no reference whatever to the matter now under discussion.