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 to say a fool. You think yourself just and uncorruptible, and upon the will of those two women you could be led into any injustice or weakness.

. No, Tomás. When I am sustained by principle my will is iron.

. I don't say 'we shall see,' because they are both angels—but, alas! if they were other! Permit me to parody the great poet, and exclaim with him: 'Temptation, thy name is woman!'

. [Energetically.] 'Words, words, words,' he said before that, doubtless, in prescience of the parody.

. There you are, up on the rostrum already.

. Don't tease papa.

. The doctor's sallies don't annoy me, child.

. This is where we stand—that for affection, for friendship, for love, for what you call the mysterious attraction of one soul for another, we can and should arrive at

. Even sacrifice—yes. But never do wrong.

. A pretty maxim for a book on morality.

. A still better one for the conscience.

. And are there no cases in which, to prevent greater misfortunes, one may compromise with this Cato's conscience, for just a little, a very little fault, hardly as big as a grain of sand?

. Once accepted, your grain would quickly weigh as heavily as a mountain of granite.

. Now, you are up the mountains. The rostrum does not suffice. 110