They can forgive anything except moral superiority. We have each
to choose between acquiescence in the wrong, with a life of ease,
and struggle for the right, crowned at last by inevitable failure.
To succeed is to fail, and failure is the only success worth aiming
at. Every great and good life can but end in a Calvary."
"And I want to save you from that," Alan cried, leaning over her
with real tenderness, for she was already very dear to him. "I
want to save you from yourself; I want to make you think twice
before you rush headlong into such a danger."
"NOT to save me from myself, but to save me from my own higher and
better nature," Herminia answered with passionate seriousness.
"Alan, I don't want any man to save me from that; I want you rather
to help me, to strengthen me, to sympathize with me. I want you to
love me, not for my face and form alone, not for what I share with
every other woman, but for all that is holiest and deepest within
me. If you can't love me for that, I don't ask you to love me; I
want to be loved for what I am in myself, for the yearnings I
possess that are most of all peculiar to me.
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