Each man had been differently trained, each
viewed life from a different stand-point, and yet each had been brought
up in the same social atmosphere, in the same social sets, had imbibed
the same traditions, been moved generally by the same public
considerations.
"But there's little to be said for a man who doesn't, outwardly at least,
live up to the social necessity," said Lambert.
"And keep the Ten Commandments in the vulgar tongue," rejoined Vidall.
"I've lived seventy-odd years, and I've knocked about a good deal in my
time," said the general, "but I've never found that you could make a
breach of social necessity, as you call it, without paying for it one way
or another. The trouble with us when we're young is that we want to get
more out of life than there really is in it. There is not much in it,
after all. You can stand just so much fighting, just so much work, just
so much emotion--and you can stand less emotion than anything else. I'm
sure more men and women break up from a hydrostatic pressure of emotion
than from anything else.
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