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156 admit they’re pure, that’s all; and you take theii bluff for the real thing.”

“You’ve got to show me.” Nutter was almos sullen. “I admit that I’m no angel, but I don’ believe that I’m a damn bit worse than the aver age. Besides, what’s wrong about it, anyhow It’s just as natural as eating, and I don’t see when there is anything worse about it.”

George Winsor stood up and leaned against th mantel. He ran his fingers through his hair unti it stood grotesquely on end. “Oh, that’s the ol argument. I’ve heard it debated in a hundred bu sessions. One fellow says it’s all wrong, and ar other fellow says it’s all right, and you never ge anywhere. I want somebody to tell me what wrong about it and what’s right. God knows yo don’t find out in your classes. They have Dc Conners give those smut talks to us in our fresl man year, and a devil of a lot of good they do. bunch of fellows faint and have to be lugged ou and the Doc gives you some sickening details aboi venereal diseases, and that’s as far as you gd Now, I’m all messed up about this sex business, ar I ’ll admit that I’m thinking about it all the tim too. Some fellows say it’s all right to have woman, and some fellows say it’s all wrong, b I notice none of them have any use for a worn; who is n’t straight.”

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