"
"Could I? Well! I'll just draw a round hundred on Monday at ten A.M."
"Why did you give your power of attorney to Morty?"
"Oh...why...he asked me to...I know nothing about business, and he
naturally would attend to my affairs."
"But you are not going away. No one needs your power of attorney. And the
executors are Judge Lawton and Mr. Abbott. You are here to sign such papers
as they advise....Don't he angry, please. I am not insinuating anything
against Morty. He's never bad a dishonest thought in his life...has always
been, the squarest...but..."
"Well?"
Alexina's head was very high. It was quite bad enough for Tom Abbott and
Judge Lawton...but for his sister...
"It's this way, Alexina. People in this world, more particularly men, are
just about as honest as circumstances will permit them to be. Some are
stronger than Life in one way or another, no doubt of it; but they make up
for it by being weaker in others....I am talking particularly of the money
question, the struggle for existence, which the vast majority of men are
forced to make....
"Men fight Life from the hour they leave their homes, when they have any,
to force success--in one way or another--out of her until the hour they are
able to lay down the burden....Some are too strong and too firm in their
ideals ever to do wrong; they would prefer failure, and generally they are
strong enough to avoid it, even to succeed in their way against the
most overwhelming odds.
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