For Me, Temperance Is Essential To Good

Beast?" Jane Murmured. "then God Make Me A Beast; For, Man Or Beast, I Am Yours.

I Verily Believe That A Man's Way With Women Is In Inverse Ratio To His Prowess Among Men. The Weakling And The Saphead Have Often Great Ability To Charm The Fair Sex, While The Fighting Man Who Can Face A Thousand Real Dangers Unafraid, Sits Hiding In The Shadows Like Some Frightened Child.

This Was Life! Ah, How He Loved It! Civilization Held Nothing Like This In Its Narrow And Circumscribed Sphere, Hemmed In By Restrictions And Conventionalities. Even Clothes Were A Hindrance And A Nuisance. At Last He Was Free. He Had Not Realized What A Prisoner He Had Been.

I Do Not Believe That I Am Made Of The Stuff Which Constitutes Heroes, Because, In All Of The Hundreds Of Instances That My Voluntary Acts Have Placed Me Face To Face With Death, I Cannot Recall A Single One Where Any Alternative Step To That I Took Occurred To Me Until Many Hours Later.

I Had This Story From One Who Had No Business To Tell It To Me, Or To Any Other. I May Credit The Seductive Influence Of An Old Vintage Upon The Narrator For The Beginning Of It, And My Own Skeptical Incredulity During The Days That Followed For The Balance Of The Strange Tale.