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Whosoever Shall Offend

CHAPTER III
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In fact, I am.

But you have never had any at all, and it is as absurd to suppose that young birds will not try to fly as that young men will not want amusement, now and then." "I suppose that women cannot always understand that," said Marcello, after a moment.
"Women," replied Folco, unmoved, "do not always distinguish quite closely between excitement that is harmless for a man and excitement which is not.

To tell the truth," he added, with a laugh, "they hardly ever distinguish at all, and it is quite useless to talk to them about it." "But surely, there are exceptions ?" "Not many.

That is the reason why there is a sort of freemasonry among men of the world, a kind of tacit agreement that women need not be told what goes on at the clubs, and at men's dinners, and late at night when old friends have spent an evening together.

Not that there is any harm in it all; but women would not understand.


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