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Lanny, of course, finds himself in the midst of the Spanish Civil War!

This was Trudi’s job, she had chosen it for herself, knowing clearly its risks. She had refused to give him any means of communicating with her, so surely she couldn’t blame him for not doing it. Nevertheless, he would go on being dissatisfied with his job, of playing prince consort to an heiress, taking her to picture shows, and lying to her because she wouldn’t permit him to have a social conscience

Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and it is a common observation that when you have taken the first step through that gate and along that way, it becomes easier to take the second and the third.

The masters of Germany’s immense steel, coal, chemical, and electrical industries said a few formal words of regret over the excesses of their new government, but hastened to point out that such things always happen during any social readjustment.

A grown-up American playboy realized that this was an important moment in his personal life. Something inside him was humbled and shamed, and he felt that he wanted to live the second half of his life to better purpose than the first. He said: “Just what is it you wish of me, Trudi?”