O Pioneers!《excerptions --坏脾气男人的疗药》

At the bottom of his heart Frank knew well enough that if he could once give up his grudge his wife would come back to him. but he could never in the world do that. The grudge was fundamental. Perhaps he could not have given it up if he had tried. Perhaps he got more satisfaction out of feeling himself abused than he would have got out of being loved. If he could once have made Marie thoroughly unhappy he might have relented and raised her from the dust.

"And now" Marie went on "Frank is just the same now as he was then only then I would see him as I wanted him to be. I would have my own way. And now I pay for it."

(Frank)

But it gratified him to feel like a desperate man. He had got into the habit of seeing himself always in desperate straits. His unhappy temperament was like a cage; he could

never get out of it; and he felt that other people his wife in particular must have put him there.

(Ivar)

"and the feet as I understand it are free members. There is no divine prohibition for them in the Ten Commandments. The hands the tongue the eyes the heart all the bo

dily desires we are commanded to subdue; but the feet are free members. I indulge them without harm to any one even to trampling in filth when my desires are low. They are quickly cleaned again.