第二章

If pride was a sin,thought Dr.Larch,the greatest sin was moral pride.He had slept with someone's mother and dressed himself in the light of her daughter's cigar.He could quite comfortably abstain from having sex for the rest of his life,but how could he ever condemn another person for having sex?
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Later,when he would have occasion to doubt himself,he would force himself to remember:he had slept with someone's mother and dressed himself in the light of her daughter's cigar.He could quite comfortably abstain from having sex for the rest of his life,but how could he ever condemn another person for having sex?He would remember,too,what he hadn't done for Mrs.Eames's daughter,and what that had cost.