' Then it must be just about time, I thought, that
this figure of nation-wide importance began to look around a little and
married the wife he'd been waiting for and started to pick up all the
things he hadn't had for twelve years.
"Well--Mary. And I was so careful about Mary," his lips twisted, half
whimsically, half painfully. "I was so damn sure. I was so damn sure I
knew everything about women.
"She had the qualities I'd said to myself I wanted--beauty, position,
breeding, a good enough mind, some common sense. She hadn't money, but
there I thought I could help her--the way she ran things for her father on
what they had showed what she could do with more. We weren't in love with
each other--oh dear no--but that I considered on the whole an advantage--
she attracted me and it's fair enough to say that beside most of the men
she'd been seeing my combination of having been Old New York and being one
of the young big coming men from the West dazzled her rather. And anyhow I
didn't want--passion--exactly. I thought it would take too much time when
I was only in the middle of my game and getting as much real solid fun out
of it as a kid gets out of cooking his own dinner in camp.
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