[The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey]@TWC D-Link bookThe Call of the Canyon CHAPTER VI 72/88
It seems to me you are bitter against women." "Oh no, Carley! I am only sad," he said.
"I only see where once I was blind.
American women are the finest on earth, but as a race, if they don't change, they're doomed to extinction." "How can you say such things ?" demanded Carley, with spirit. "I say them because they are true.
Carley, on the level now, tell me how many of your immediate friends have children." Put to a test, Carley rapidly went over in mind her circle of friends, with the result that she was somewhat shocked and amazed to realize how few of them were even married, and how the babies of her acquaintance were limited to three.
It was not easy to admit this to Glenn. "My dear," replied he, "if that does not show you the handwriting on the wall, nothing ever will." "A girl has to find a husband, doesn't she ?" asked Carley, roused to defense of her sex.
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