13/127 Do not agree to any relations with such people. What have you to do with the country of this adventuress? Be an egoist, my son!" But the voice in his other mental hemisphere, that boasting and idiotic voice which always impelled him to embark on vessels bound to be shipwrecked, to be reckless of danger for the mere pleasure of putting his vigor to the proof, also gave him counsel. It was a villainous thing to abandon a woman. |