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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: Man is too thoroughly an egoist not to be also an egotist;
if he love, the object shall know it. During a lifetime he
may conceal it through stress of expediency and honour,
but it shall bubble from his dying lips, though it disrupt
a neighbourhood. It is known, however, that most men
do not wait so long to disclose their passion. In the case
of Lorison, his particular ethics positively forbade him
to declare his sentiments, but he must needs dally with
the subject, and woo by innuendo at least.
On this night, after the usual meal at the Carabine
d'Or, he strolled with his companion down the dim old
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