This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... After all, what right had he to be jealous if Essie did prefer Bertie-to him? Had he not accepted her resignation of him?' Ay, ' said Arnold to himself bitterly; 'it's good to be off with the old love before you are on with the new, and Essie has taken care to do that. What inconsistent creatures women are! and I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ... After all, what right had he to be jealous if Essie did prefer Bertie-to him? Had he not accepted her resignation of him?' Ay, ' said Arnold to himself bitterly; 'it's good to be off with the old love before you are on with the new, and Essie has taken care to do that. What inconsistent creatures women are! and I loved Essie so awfully only last spring!' It did not strike him that, in speaking thus of his love for Essie in the past tense, he was charging himself with inconsistency quite as much as her. Neither did it strike him that the fact might be the reverse of his imagination, and that Essie might love him still as dearly as he allowed that he had once loved her. XVIII. Arnold's Second Love. Arnold went to Hastings, not wholly without compunction, since he could not conceal from himself that he was going there to court Maria Burley, not for love, but for ambition's sake; and his conscience also told him that it was worse in him to do this than it would have been in many others, who were satisfied with the world's sanction of such doings, and professed no higher ideal themselves. Nevertheless, he stifled his conscience and went. He had put himself under the power of this temptation at the moment when Mr. Dickson disclosed to him his plans, and he had not simply resisted them by confessing the truth respecting his own feelings. When people who have had a higher ideal than their fellows deviate from it, and descend to the level of others, there are always plenty of plausible reasons why they should do so. They forget that the glory of the higher life is that it is an end, and not a means towards anything else, and therefore that the comparative goodness of the higher and lower courses of action cannot be measured by their consequences. It was no crime th...
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