Word: corsey
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...John Corsey grew up the tensest little aristocrat of all, with passions to match his principles; to assault them; never to bend them, but eventually to break them, and break him. He was the kind of little boy who hides the humiliation of undeserved punishment. As a young man he seared in fire the hand with which he struck his friend. He rode at perilous water-jumps because he was afraid of them. He quit law because he could not find in it a way to make the world finer...
When he found Nina Michaud, she fulfilled his deepest nature, gave him freely a rich love that was a whole way of life. But his ancestors poisoned his happiness. The more Nina was his, the less inclined he was to introduce her to his mother. The old Corsey servants were enough to remind him that she was only a poor artist's daughter, that she lived in the wrong part of town, that Cor seys had never paraded ? never thought of marrying! ? their mistresses...
...they stayed unfulfilled. Their son, Rush Corsey, was their one joint achievement and salvation, but the War took him. They both tried infidelity, but it was futile. John could not bring himself to it; what he needed was a life not a liaison. And Mildred soon lost her lover by having, in her honesty, to tell him she did not respect...
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