...Many are too clever not to find some way of
compromising and circumventing....Others just peg along and barely make
both ends meet....Others go under and down and out.
"Morty, like millions of other young Americans, had good principles and
high ideals inculcated from his earliest boyhood and took to them as a duck
takes to water. Nor is he weak. But although he is a hard and steady worker
he is also visionary. He speculated on the stock market before he was
married. Probably not now as the market is moribund. He is frantic to get
rich...for more reasons than one."
"But he never would do anything dishonorable."
"No. Nothing he couldn't square with his conscience if it turned out all
right. But the most honest man, when in a hole, finds little difficulty in
arriving at the conclusion that what is, illogically, the possession of the
women of his family, is his if he needs it.
"Moreover, no doubt you have discovered that Morty is the sort of man who
looks upon women as man's natural inferiors, that if there is any question
of sacrifice the woman is not to be considered for a moment...especially
where no public risk is involved. That sort of man only thinks he is too
honest to refrain from taking some unrelated woman's money, but as a matter
of fact it is because she would send him to State's Prison as readily as a
man would. One's own women are safe.
"I lent Morty my small inheritance with my eyes open.
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