[Demos by George Gissing]@TWC D-Link bookDemos CHAPTER XXIV 39/42
'It's you who don't understand, and just because you have no sympathy with my work. Any one would think you cared for nothing but to take the money from me, just to--' Even in his access of spiteful anger he checked himself, and dropped to another tone. 'I take all the responsibility.
You have nothing to do with it.
What seems right to me, I shall do.
I am your husband, and you've no voice in a thing like this.' 'No voice? Have I no right to save you from ruin? Must a wife stand by and see her husband commit a crime? Have you no duty to me? What becomes of our married life if you rob me of all respect for you ?' 'I tell you I am doing it with a good motive.
If you were a thorough Socialist, you would respect me all the more.
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