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Excerpt from Wings of Desire
SO he usually thought. Yet to-night he had his doubts, for secretly, while Willie waltzed, Peter was wrestling with the great problem of whether it is wise to cry peace where there is no peace; whether to hide, to cover up evil, leads a man any way on the road to cure; whether, in fact, it isn't better to drag things out of their hiding-places - and look at 'em.
Thus Peter Westlake had ceased for a time to be an Englishman, while his round pink cheeks grew redder and the one front lock which had escaped the brilliantine waved over his forehead like a pennon. He was a cherub with a brow and the grey on his temples was spreading, but all the time he was longing to testify to the folly of a lawyer's clerk who had tried to do good. He recognised to-night that all he had ever done was to cheat the clock a bit, by keeping these fellows sober for an hour at a time, not knowing that whatever you've got a thirst for you had better go drink, so as to learn the taste of the cup.
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