The game . only his boy face. This face shedid not know at all. And yet, while it frightened her, shewas vaguely stirred with pride in masculinity, the masculinity of thefighting male, made its inevitable appealto her, a female, moulded by all her hered-ity to seek out the strong man for mate, andto lean against the wall of his did not understand this force of hisbeing that rose mightier than her love andlaid its compulsion upon him; and yet. H THE GAME in her womans heart she was aware of thesweet pang which told her that for her sake,for Loves own sake, he had surrendere
The game . only his boy face. This face shedid not know at all. And yet, while it frightened her, shewas vaguely stirred with pride in masculinity, the masculinity of thefighting male, made its inevitable appealto her, a female, moulded by all her hered-ity to seek out the strong man for mate, andto lean against the wall of his did not understand this force of hisbeing that rose mightier than her love andlaid its compulsion upon him; and yet. H THE GAME in her womans heart she was aware of thesweet pang which told her that for her sake,for Loves own sake, he had surrendered to her, abandoned allthat portion of hislife, and with this onelast fight would neverfight again. Mrs. Silversteindoesnt like prize-fighting, she said. Shes down on it,and she knows some-thing, too. He smiled indul-gently, concealing ahurt, not altogether new, at her persistentinappreciation of this side of his nature andlife in which he took the greatest pride. Itwas to him power and achievement, earned. THE GAME 25 by his own effort and hard work; and inthe moment when he had offered himself andall that he was to Genevieve, it was this,and this alone, that he was y^^.^proudly conscious of lay-ing at her feet. It was the merit of ,,,,,,,, Iffwork performed, (f// ^ a guerdon of man-hood finer andgreater than anyother man couldoffer, and ithad been to himhis justification andright to possess her. And she |V had notunderstood it then, as she did not under-stand it now, and he might well have won-dered what else she found in him to makehim worthy.
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