[The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Call of the Canyon CHAPTER X 36/70
But they will never, never abolish jazz--never, for it is the grandest, the most wonderful, the most absolutely necessary thing for women in this terrible age of smotheration." "All right, Eleanor, we understand each other, even if we do not agree," said Carley.
"You leave the future of women to chance, to life, to materialism, not to their own conscious efforts.
I want to leave it to free will and idealism." "Carley, you are getting a little beyond me," declared Eleanor, dubiously. "What are you going to do? It all comes home to each individual woman. Her attitude toward life." "I'll drift along with the current, Carley, and be a good sport," replied Eleanor, smiling. "You don't care about the women and children of the future? You'll not deny yourself now, and think and work, and suffer a little, in the interest of future humanity ?" "How you put things, Carley!" exclaimed Eleanor, wearily.
"Of course I care--when you make me think of such things.
But what have I to do with the lives of people in the years to come ?" "Everything.
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