Quotation from: The Valley of the Moon

Written by: Jack London


And to him she led Saxon, and into his arms placed her. "Now,
sir--and you look delicious, the pair of you--register your
objections to my way of earning a living."


"It ain't your way," Billy repudiated quickly. "Your way's all
right. It's great. What I'm trying to get at is that your way
don't fit us. We couldn't make a go of it your way. Why you had
pull--well-to-do acquaintances, people that knew you'd been a
librarian an' your husband a professor. An' you had. . . ." Here he
floundered a moment, seeking definiteness for the idea he still
vaguely grasped. "Well, you had a way we couldn't have. You were
educated, an' . . . an'--I don't know, I guess you knew society
ways an' business ways we couldn't know."

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