Capitolo 23
hesitated. My thought was for you. You are still a lot of youth. You
says you you/he/she has counted the cost. I wonder if you have. I wonder me if
You realize."
"Only too much well", Herminia responded, in a very serious humor. "I have
beaten it all out in my beforehand,--covenanted of the mind with my soul
what for the cause of women I would be free a woman. Alan, whoever is able
is free is owed strikes the hit. I know what you will say,--
thing every men would tell the woman under that he has loved similar
circumstances,--'Because you/he/she should be the victim? Because if you had to be
the martyr? You cooks in the sun You; you leave this decree to some
other.' But, Alan, I am not able. I feel _I_ it has to face him/it. Unless one
woman starts, there will be no beginning." You lifted his/her hand in
his/her really, and he/she caressed him in his/her turn with caressing tenderness.
"You think as easy it would be for me, the dear friend" she cried, with
a taking in his/her voice, to do as the other women; to accept the
Honorable marriage that you offer me, as the other women would call him/it; to
is false to my sex, a traitor to my sentences; to sell my kind
for a confusion of soup, a name and a house, or also for thirty pieces
of silver, to be the wife of some rich man, as the other women have sold him.
But, Alan, I am not able. My conscience won't do me. I know that that
marriage is, from that scurvy slavery has jumped; on what not seen
horrors for my women of sister it is reared and it sustained; from that that
cruel sacrifices that you/he/she is sustained, and it did possible. I know him/it
it has a history, I know his/her past, I know his/her present, and I am not able
embrace him; I cannot be false to my more sacred beliefs. I am not able
you pimp to the malignant thing, only because a man that loves me
it would be settled from my way that gives and he/she would kiss me, and he/she caresses me
for him. And me The hook to caress me. But I have to hold mine correct
puts, the liberty that I have earned for me from so arduous