[The Fighting Chance by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Fighting Chance CHAPTER IX CONFESSIONS 33/63
You will not do it, will you ?" "I will," she said softly. "It's no use; I can't turn on him.
I can't! He is my friend, you see." "Let him remain so.
I shall do what I can.
Let him remain a monument to his fellow-beasts.
What do I care? Do you think I desire to turn you into his image? Do you think I hope for your degradation and mine? Are you afraid I should not recognise love unaccompanied by the attendant beast? I--I don't know; you had better teach me, if I prove blind.
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