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“His warrior's spirit reasserted itself in the face of necessity, but first love is something special, even to a man of iron will. He had violated all norms of morality and gratitude in his passionate devotion to her, and yet they were being forced apart almost as soon as they had begun to meet.”

“Probably the reason that he grew bashful when he looked at his wife's face was that, deep in his heart, he was embarrassed to be so hopelessly in love with her.”

“But occasionally, when a boy is placed in conducive surroundings and relives those feelings again and again, the secret pleasure will eat its way into his heart.”

“The grand are sometimes base and the
brave sometimes weak; he who yesterday crushed a thousand foes on the battlefield is lashed today at home by the fiends of hell. The most graceful woman may show a ferocious temper; the most valiant warrior may suddenly turn into a beast.”