But I am not driven as they are evidently driven.

The fact of the matter is that desire is not in me.

My nature shrinks from sin; but it is not virtue that shrinks: it is rather reserve.

I have no more temptation to be sensual, for instance, than I have to be vulgar." "Hang it, Val, you don't want to have the temptation, do you ?" Valentine looked at Julian curiously.
"You have the temptation, Julian ?" he said.
"You know I have--horribly." "But you fight it and conquer it ?" "I fight it, and now I am beginning to conquer it, to get it under." "Now?
Since when ?" Julian replied by asking another question.
"Look here, how long have we known each other ?" "Let me see.

I'm twenty-four, you twenty-three.