The Woman Who Didn'T

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CHAPTER III THE next six months, spent partly in Paris partly in London, were six months lost, thrown away in dissipation that failed even in being amusing, and in which I wasted as much money and strength as one could well do in ...
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CHAPTER III THE next six months, spent partly in Paris partly in London, were six months lost, thrown away in dissipation that failed even in being amusing, and in which I wasted as much money and strength as one could well do in the time. Of course I made excuses for myself. No man, except sometimes in retrospection, and sometimes under the influence of a great moral shock, will ever look his conduct in the face. If he admits it is bad, he immediately marshals an illimitable number of excuses to explain and justify the evil he is committing, until he has conclusively proved that he is in reality but the passive and suffering martyr to the surrounding circumstances. And my excuses seemed to me to be legion. I needed distraction. It was positively necessary to me to forget, at any rate to conquer, the dishonourable passion for another's wife. Anything that I could do was better than to encourage my present feelings, to continue to think of her as I was thinking; and without distraction, without diversion, it was impossible to drown the remembrance of her as it was obviously my duty to do. As to the passion itself, I was greatly to be excused. I had been badly treated, unfairly used. Of course, if I had known the truth from the first, the passion would never have been allowed to grow into being, etc., etc. Then, too, I realised so keenly that I had done my duty in the matter by accepting my dismissal, that I felt I could allow myself a little license now, for in the male moral code we make alittle virtue go a long way. Besides, there was no doubt that there was but one method by which I could efface Eurydice's image from my mind, blunt the edge of remembrance and steel myself to indifference to her if it should chance that we met again. And now that th...
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  • ISBN-13: 9781409981862
  • Publisher: Dodo Press
  • Publication date: 5/8/2009
  • Pages: 92
  • Product dimensions: 0.22 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 9.00 (d)

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