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Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932

"The Real Adventure"

Because you can't love me all the time. I
don't believe a man--a real man--_can_ love a woman all the time. And if
she makes him hate her when he doesn't love her, he'll get so he hates
loving her."
"You're talking nonsense!" he said again roughly. He was pacing the room
by now. "Stark staring nonsense!"
Of course the reason it caught him like that was simply that it echoed
so uncannily the things that went through his own head sometimes in his
stolen hours of solitude--thoughts he had often tried, unavailingly, to
stamp out of existence.
"I'd like to know where you get that stuff. Is it from James Randolph?
He's dangerous, that fellow. Oh, he's interesting, and I like him, but
he's a cynic. He doesn't want anybody to be happier than he is. But what
may be true of him, isn't true of me. I've never stopped loving you
since the first day we talked together. And I should think I'd done
enough to prove it."
"That's it," she said. "You've done too much. And you're so sorry for me
when you don't love me, that it makes you do all the more.


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