The Doomswoman An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Author:Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton [Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Public Domain Books
Published: 2006-03-17T05:00:00+00:00

"A man is but one; traditions are fivefold, and multiplied by duty.

Poor grain of sand--what can he give, comparable to the cold serene happiness of fidelity to self? Love is sweet,--horribly sweet,--but so common a madness can give but a tithe of the satisfaction of duty to pure and lofty ideals."

"I do not believe that." The woman in her arose in resentment. "A life of duty must be empty, cold, and wrong. It was not that we were made for."

"Let us talk little of love, senorita: it is a dangerous subject."

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