The Sword of Fate
“Perhaps the gods gave me certain qualities which are attractive to women as a sort of compensation for the evil that they did me when they sabotaged my career in the Diplomatic at its very beginning and made me an outcast with no profession and no home. The very fact of my enforced idleness during the two years before the war had led me into all sorts of amorous adventures in half a dozen European countries and in the Near East as well.
I don’t want to sound a prig, but it isn’t good for a young man’s morals to have no background, nothing to do except to amuse himself and plenty of money to do it with. Mind you, I’m not suggesting for one moment that I regret those locust years. Each of my affairs taught me something, not only about women but about their nationalities and a score of other things of which I should know little except for them. All the same, this constant seeking of forgetfulness in the company of good-looking girls, to which I had more or less been driven by my loneline...ss, had certainly tended to make me rather blasé.MoreLess
I don’t want to sound a prig, but it isn’t good for a young man’s morals to have no background, nothing to do except to amuse himself and plenty of money to do it with. Mind you, I’m not suggesting for one moment that I regret those locust years. Each of my affairs taught me something, not only about women but about their nationalities and a score of other things of which I should know little except for them. All the same, this constant seeking of forgetfulness in the company of good-looking girls, to which I had more or less been driven by my loneline...ss, had certainly tended to make me rather blasé.MoreLess
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