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Even the look on Abel's face, which she had been forced to recognize as that of despair, seemed to her, on the whole, a safer expression than one of a too-exultant joy. She was not afraid of despair its manifestations were familiar to her, and she had usually found them amenable to the laws of propriety.
In these times of ours, when wars and rumours of wars shake the lethargic souls of too-exultant politicians and statesmen with anxiety for themselves if not for their country, we hear every day of men and women breaking their marriage vows as lightly as though God were not existent, we read of princes whose low amours are a disgrace to the world of dukes and earls who tolerate the unchastity of their wives in order that they themselves may have the more freedom, of men of title and position who even sell their wives to their friends in order to secure some much-needed cash or social advantage, and while our law is busy night and day covering up 'aristocratic' crimes from publicity, and showing forth the far smaller sins of hard-working poverty, God's law is at work in a totally different way.
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