Even I have something left of their old-fashioned conservatism clinging to me--and yet people consider me extremely liberal in my views.

But all my liberality, all my modern education since I left the dear old absurdities of our narrow childhood and youth, can not reconcile me to what you threaten us with--with what you are threatened--you, your entire future life." "What seems to threaten you--and them--is my marriage to the woman with whom I'm in love.

Does that shock you ?" "The circumstances shock me." "I could not control the circumstances." "You can control yourself, Louis." "Yes--I can do that.

I can break her heart and mine." "Hearts don't break, Louis.

And is anybody to live life through exempt from suffering?
If your unhappiness comes early in life to you it will pass the sooner, leaving the future tranquil for you, and you ready for it, unperplexed--made cleaner, purer, braver by a sorrow that came, as comes all sorrow--and that has gone its way, like all sorrows, leaving you the better and the worthier." "How is it to leave _her_ ?" He spoke so naturally, so simply, that for the moment his sister did not recognise in him what had never before been there to recognise--the thought of another before himself.