What possible respect could you, or any other man, entertain for a girl guilty of such indiscretion ?" "You ask my individual judgment, or that of the world ?" "Yours, of course; I know the other already." I extended my hand across the table, and placed it over her own.

A swift flush sprang to her cheeks, but she made no effort to draw away.
The action was so natural, so unaffectedly sincere, as to awaken no resentment.
"I am a young man," I said earnestly, "but I have seen all kinds of life, both right and wrong, upper and lower.

I can realize how easy it is to sit in a club window, and criticize the people passing along the street.

That is an amusement of fools.

The inclination to become one of that class left me long ago.