You have to think of Society, your children, house, money arrangements, a thousand things.

It's all very well to talk.

How do you like this whisky ?" "The part of the good citizen, in fact," said Shelton, "self-preservation!" "Common-sense," returned his friend; "I believe in justice before sentiment." He drank, and callously blew smoke at Shelton.

"Besides, there are many people with religious views about it." "It's always seemed to me," said Shelton, "to be quaint that people should assert that marriage gives them the right to 'an eye for an eye,' and call themselves Christians.

Did you ever know anybody stand on their rights except out of wounded pride or for the sake of their own comfort?
Let them call their reasons what they like, you know as well as I do that it's cant." "I don't know about that," said Halidome, more and more superior as Shelton grew more warm; "when you stand on your rights, you do it for the sake of Society as well as for your own.