"Have it, then! Heaven knows I think of it enough not to be afraid to speak it out in words.

Adelaide"-- the name came with passion, but once uttered, produced its own calming effect, so that he went on with more restraint--"Adelaide never had much patience with me.
She was a girl who only saw one way.

'The right! the right!' was what she dinned into my ears from the time I was a small boy and didn't know but that all youngsters were brought up by sisters.

I grew to hate what she called 'the right,' I wanted pleasure, a free time, and a good drink whenever the fancy took me.

You know what I am, Dr.Perry, and everybody in town knows; but the impulse which has always ruled me was not a downright evil one; or if it was, I called it natural independence, and let it go at that.