[An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookAn Eye for an Eye CHAPTER VI 12/23
If it were only myself, I would give up all to her.
I would, by heaven.
But I cannot sacrifice the family.
As to solemn promises, did I not swear to my uncle that I would not disgrace the family by such a marriage? Almost the last word that I spoke to him was that.
Am I to be untrue to him? There are times in which it seems impossible that a man should do right." "There are times in which a man may be too blind to see the right," said Jack,--sparing his brother in that he did not remind him that those dilemmas always come from original wrong-doing. "I think I am resolved not to marry her," said Fred. "If I were in your place I think I should marry her," said Jack;--"but I will not speak with certainty even of myself." "I shall not.
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