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Updated: June 3, 2025
Gross sins had never exercised any attraction over him. What virtue was there, then, in being innocent of gross sin? But to those other sins sins of defective moral courage in speech and action, sins arising from over-fastidiousness had he not yielded freely? Was he not a spiritual valetudinarian? He feared so.
But the one which came to tongue oftener than any other, was that which proclaimed the red fires of the artist-flesh to burn within him, while he bemoaned the fact that he had never yet found a woman worthy of his devotion. Loudly did he bewail his over-fastidiousness; in which, nevertheless, he secretly glorified.
If Christine were only less troubled with conscience, over-fastidiousness, or whatever it is if she were more moderate in her ambition as an artist, and could be satisfied with power and admiration, as other women are what a star she might become in the fashionable world of Europe! But, for some reason, I never feel sure of her.
If one desires a remedy for over-fastidiousness, let him stroll for a while about this native portion of Colombo. He will open his eyes in surprise now and then, but it is astonishing how soon one becomes indifferent to the most peculiar local customs, whether in Samoa, Japan, or among the Alaska Indians.
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