[This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald]@TWC D-Link bookThis Side of Paradise CHAPTER 3 29/35
I'll tell you there is no God, not even a definite abstract goodness; so it's all got to be worked out for the individual by the individual here in high white foreheads like mine, and you're too much the prig to admit it." She let go her reins and shook her little fists at the stars. "If there's a God let him strike me--strike me!" "Talking about God again after the manner of atheists," Amory said sharply.
His materialism, always a thin cloak, was torn to shreds by Eleanor's blasphemy....
She knew it and it angered him that she knew it. "And like most intellectuals who don't find faith convenient," he continued coldly, "like Napoleon and Oscar Wilde and the rest of your type, you'll yell loudly for a priest on your death-bed." Eleanor drew her horse up sharply and he reined in beside her. "Will I ?" she said in a queer voice that scared him.
"Will I? Watch! _I'm going over the cliff!_" And before he could interfere she had turned and was riding breakneck for the end of the plateau. He wheeled and started after her, his body like ice, his nerves in a vast clangor.
There was no chance of stopping her.
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