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and respect as wives and mothers–even loved,
if you will, for a recreation–but as vital factors in a man’s real
life! My dear fellow, the idea is ridiculous–that life should be for
his country and the development of his own soul—-“

Michael Arranstoun laughed.

“Jolly old Mohammedan! You think women have none, I suppose!”

Henry Fordyce frowned, because it was rather true–but he denied the
charge.

“Nothing of the sort. Merely, I see things at their proper balance and
you cannot.”

Michael leaned back in his chair; he was quieter for a moment.

“I only see what I want to see, Henry–and I am a savage–I cannot help
it–we have always been so. When I fancy a woman, I must obtain
her–when I want a horse, I must have it. It is always _must_–and we
have not done so badly. We still possess our shoulders and chins and
strength after eleven hundred years of it!” and he stretched out a
splendid arm, with a force which could have felled an ox.

An undoubtedly fine specimen of British manhood he