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A Daughter of the Snows

CHAPTER XX
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Their ends are one; the difference lies in their ways, and therein the climate, and the cumulative effect thereof, is the determining factor.

Both are sinners, as men born of women have ever been; but the one does his sin openly, in the clear sight of God; the other--as though God could not see--veils his iniquity with shimmering fancies, hiding it like it were some splendid mystery.
These be the ways of men, each as the sun shines upon him and the wind blows against him, according to his kind, and the seed of his father, and the milk of his mother.

Each is the resultant of many forces which go to make a pressure mightier than he, and which moulds him in the predestined shape.

But, with sound legs under him, he may run away, and meet with a new pressure.

He may continue running, each new pressure prodding him as he goes, until he dies and his final form will be that predestined of the many pressures.


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