Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


She was proud of him--a goodly, eye-filling figure of a man to any
woman; but she no longer felt sorry for him. They were right. It was a
game. The race was to the swift, the battle to the strong. They had
run such races, fought such battles. Then why not she? And as she
continued to look, that self-query became reiterant.


They were not anchorites, these two men. Liberal-lived they must have
been in that past out of which, like mysteries, they had come to her.
They had had the days and nights that women were denied--women such as
she. As for Dick, beyond all doubt--even had she heard whispers--there
had been other women in that wild career of his over the world. Men
were men, and they were two such men. She felt a burn of jealousy
against those unknown women who must have been, and her heart
hardened. They had taken their fun where they found it--Kipling's line
ran through her head.

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