His Other Wife: A Novel — page 230: what you’re looking at

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222 GRAFF CONWAY. girl was entirely won over to perfect confidence in the worthiness of Floy’s father. , ‘“You must be a very good man, or so pure and sweet a creature as your daughter couldn’t love you so dearly,” she said, after listening to one of the girl’s letters, which Conway had taken from the breast of his blouse and, with great pride, read aloud to her. ““No, my dear, not a good man, but a loving one to my own; and that amounts to the same thing with women, I think.” ‘“‘Do you? I don't think I could love any one whom I believed to be bad.” ‘«Perhaps not; but if you had loved any one, it would be next to impossible to make you believe that person to be bad.” ‘“Yes; I am sure it would.” ‘‘ Also, I am certain if you found out their badness after you loved people, you would go on loving all the same, maybe more. It is the way with women.” “You seem to know a great deal about women’s ways and natures,” said Faith, archly. ‘“‘T have a right to, my dear, when I’ve: six of my own, counting in the dame. Floy is the youngest of the brood,” The Malay came up to summon the mate and the passenger to supper. It was the cook’s business to stay on deck and keep a lookout beyond and about the cutter: while the captain and mate took their meals together. » GomiGbooks.co