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Excerpt from The Main Road a Novel
As he sat drinking he would forget the stages by which he had withdrawn himself from any intention to compete with other men, on the excuse that a handicap takes away a gentleman's chance. He would forget whatever there had been of unmanliness in his reasons for marrying the daughter of a Wisconsin farmer, skipping all that was undignified, dreary, and cheap and a cause for self-disgust. Gone were the hours of linked monotony; he was in a real world, where there could be action as well as softness, and it grew more real as he moved his glass and made more stains on the mahogany. He would feel a kind of wonder ing contempt for old Keyes, sitting silent opposite him, his fat, sunburned hands clasped across the two unbuttoned gaps in his waistcoat.
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