Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


Paula nodded, then quickly added, "No, not quite that. Because you
know I don't want to keep you away ... too far. I say it because Dick
is so much in my mind. For twelve years, you realize, he filled my
mind. I say it because ... because I think it, I suppose. Think! The
situation! You are trespassing on a perfect marriage."


"I know it," he answered. "And I do not like the role of trespasser.
It is your insistence, instead of going away with me, that I should
trespass. And I can't help it. I think away from you, try to force my
thoughts elsewhere. I did half a chapter this morning, and I know it's
rotten and will have to be rewritten. For I can't succeed in thinking
away from you. What is South America and its ethnology compared to
you? And when I come near you my arms go about you before I know what
I am doing. And, by God, you want them there, you want them there, you
know it."

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