`` This is the even-handed dealing of the world ! '' he said . `` There is nothing on which it is so hard as poverty ; and there is nothing it professes to condemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth ! '' `` You fear the world too much , '' she answered gently . `` All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach . I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one , until the master passion , Gain , engrosses you . Have I not ? '' `` What then ? '' he retorted . `` Even if I have grown so much wiser , what then ? I am not changed towards you . '' She shook her head . `` Am I ? '' `` Our contract is an old one . It was made when we were both poor , and content to be so , until , in good season , we could improve our worldly fortune by our patient industry . You are changed . When it was made you were another man . '' `` I was a boy , '' he said impatiently . `` Your own feeling tells you that you were not what you are , '' she returned . `` I am .
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