The Restless Sex
by Robert William Chambers (9781150521300)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Humor / General Literary Criticism / American / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III DURING the next few weeks John William Cle- land's instinct fought a continuous series of combats with his reason. Instinct, with her powerful allies, loneliness and love, urged the solitary man to rash experiment; reason ridiculed impulse and made it very clear to Cleland that he was a fool. But instinct had this advantage; she was always awake, whispering to his mind and heart; and reason often fell asleep on guard over his brain. But when awake, reason laughed at the conspirators, always in ambush to slay him; and carried matters with a high hand, rebuking instinct and frowning upon her allies. And John Cleland hesitated. He wrote to his only son every day. He strove to find occupation for every minute between the morning awakening in his silent chamber and the melancholy lying down at night. But always the battle between reason and instinct continued. Reason had always appealed to Cleland Senior. His parents and later his wife and son had known the only sentimental phenomena which had ever characterized him in his career. Outside of these exceptions, reason had always ruled him. This is usually the case among those who inherit money from forebears who, in turn, have been accustomed to inherit and hand down a moderate but unimpaired fortune through sober generations. Such people are born logical when not born fools. And now Cleland Senior, mortified and irritated by the increasing longing wh...

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