A God and His Gifts

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“I will ask you once more. It is the last time. Will you or will you not?”

“I will not. It is also the last time. It must be the last.”

“You will not give me your reasons?”

“I will give you one. You have too much. Your house and your land. Your parents and your sister. Your sister who is also your friend. Your work and your growing name. I like things to be on a moderate scale. To have them in my hands and not be held by them.”

“That is not the only reason. There must be a deeper one.”

“There is. And it may be deep. I do not want to marry. I seldom say so, to be disbelieved.”

“You don’t feel that marriage would mean a fuller life?”

“I don’t want the things it would be full of. Light words are sometimes true.”

“Then there must be a change. I do want to marry. I want to have descendants. I want to hand down my name. I could not keep up our relation under a wife’s eyes. It has escaped my parents.”

“Your father I daresay. What about your mother?”

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