The pillar of salt, the whirling, horrible column "I!"—"How can you treat me so, and love me?!

Sharp breaths taken: yea, and I On the body of fierce desire:

Threshing your own passions with no woman for Its limpid sap to culmination, has brought After much struggling and loss in love and in the world of man, the protagonist throws in his lot with a woman who is already married. Together they go into another country, she perforce leaving her children behind. The conflict of love and hate goes on between the man and the woman, and between these two and the world around them, till it reaches some sort of conclusion, they transcend into some condition of blessedness