inions that he was not ready to hold in abeyance
Ignorant of her ignorance
It don't do any good to look at its drawbacks all the time
Justice must be paid for at every step in fees and costs
Life has taught him to truckle and trick
Man's willingness to abide in the present
No longer the gross appetite for novelty
No right to burden our friends with our decisions
Travel, with all its annoyances and fatigues
Typical anything else, is pretty difficult to find
PART FIFTH
I.
Superficially, the affairs of 'Every Other Week' settled into their
wonted form again, and for Fulkerson they seemed thoroughly reinstated.
But March had a feeling of impermanency from what had happened, mixed
with a fantastic sense of shame toward Lindau. He did not sympathize
with Lindau's opinions; he thought his remedy for existing evils as
wildly impracticable as Colonel Woodburn's. But while he thought this,
and while he could justly blame Fulkerson for Lindau's presence at
Dryfoos's dinner, which his zeal had brought about in spite of March's
protests, still he could not rid himself of the reproach of uncandor
with Lindau. He ought to have told him frankly about the ownership of
the magazine, and what manner of man the man was whose money he was
taking. But he said that he never could have imagined that he was
serious in his preposterous attitude in regard to a class of men who
embody half the prosperity of the country; and he had moments of
revolt against his own humiliation before Lindau, in which he found it
monstrous that he should return Dryfoos's money as if it had been the
spoil of a robber. His wife agreed with him in these moments, and said
it was a great relief not to have that tiresome old German coming about.
They had to account for his absence evasively to the children, whom
they could not very well tell that their father was living on money that
Lindau disdained to take, even though Lindau was wrong and their father
was right. This heightened Mrs. March's resentment toward both Lindau
and Dryfoos, who between them had placed her husband in a false
position. If anything, she resented Dryfoos's conduct more than
Lindau's. He had never spoken to March about the affair since Lindau had
renounced his work, or added to the apologetic messages he had sent by
Fulkerson. So far as March knew, Dryfoos had been left to suppose that
Lindau had simply stopped for some reason that did not per
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