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Instinctively, with a an to mumble a half-articulate disclaimer; and then I stopped After all, why should I not confide in hiood h so cryptic and secretive in his professional capacity And I wanted a friend badly just now

"I aan shyly, "it is not a matter that ad that I ought to worry you by talking about----"

"If it is enough to h to merit serious consideration by your friend; so, if you don'tme----"

"Of course I don't, sir!" I exclaimed

"Then fire away; and don't call ed, I poured out the story ofphrases, but, later, with rave attention, and once or twice put a question when my narrative became a little disconnected When I had finished he laid his hand softly on h luck, Berkeley I don't wonder that you are miserable I am more sorry than I can tell you"

"Thank you," I said "It's exceedingly good of you to listen so patiently, but it's a shame for me to pester you with my sentimental troubles"

"Now, Berkeley, you don't think that, and I hope you don't think that I do We should be bad biologists and worse physicians if we should under-estimate the importance of that which is Nature's chiefest care The one salient biological truth is the paramount importance of sex; and we are deaf and blind if we do not hear and see it in everything that lives e look abroad upon the world; e listen to the spring song of the birds, or e consider the lilies of the field And as is anisms, so is human love to their merely reflex ree with me, I know, that the love of a serious and honourable man for a woman who is worthy of him is the most momentous of all human affairs It is the foundation of social life, and its failure is a serious calamity, not only to those whose lives e"

"It's a serious enough reed; "but that is no reason why they should bore their friends"