Capitolo 83
"And oh, Father!" Called Eve, in the moment in which his/her hand the door-handle grip touched.
"There is anything that I want to ask him the cause of Henrietta. It is rather
a delicate question, but after I get married me I suppose that I will have
you save all of my delicate questions to--asks to John; and John, somehow it has
it never seemed to me particularly cautious around anything except--the geology.
Son-in-laws!" she asked, "only thing is--that you consider this way
particularly disgusting in--in--the young men? Is it their sins?"
"Sins!" gives a shake his/her father. "Bah! Be their lines of the face!"
"Then?" small questioned Eve Edgarton from his/her pillows. "Then? This way
how--that that?"
"As woman's search!" his/her father. "The love--not of
woman, but of the search of woman! On all the sides you see him/it to-day! On
all the sides you feel him/it--the sense it--suffers of him! The youth is eternally
sexual and playful skill of woman! 'Is it young? Is it beautiful?'
And always, eternally, 'there is some a younger? It is there some one
more beautiful?' Sins, do you ask?" Suddenly he seemed now perfectly prepared,
also anxious, to linger and to speak. "A sin is not anything, oftener that not,
but a lake act of providence, not-considered! A yellow line completely as
external as the superficial scorch of a sunbeam. And existing that doesn't is not sin there
a man cannot repent him of! And there is no honest repentance, Eve that
a wise woman cannot constitute above in a foundation of base the happiness!
But a line of the face? A congenital tendency? Did a yellow line cross in the bone?
Because, Eve! If a man loves, I tell him, not the woman but the search of
woman? This way that--wherever does he win--he wastes again? This way that indeed to
hard, does he win to waste only? Eternally moving himself/herself/itself--on--on--above from one
devastated attraction to another? Eve! I deliver her on--Your mother
reincarnate body--to--to as that?"
"Or--h", it said Edgarton the small Eve. Its eyes were rather wide with
horror. "As accurate I will have to be with Henrietta me."