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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: prize; and the man moving through it all like a flying shuttle,
very proud of himself, whom he believed to be a second Don Juan.
It was nobody's fault except the man's that Loraine Lisznayi at
last landed him. The way of a man with a maid may be too
wonderful to know, but the way of a woman with a man passeth all
conception; whence the prophet were indeed unwise who would dare
forecast Floyd Vanderlip's course twenty-four hours in advance.
Perhaps the model-woman's attraction lay in that to the eye she
was a handsome animal; perhaps she fascinated him with her old-
world talk of palaces and princes; leastwise she dazzled him whose
life had been worked out in uncultured roughness, and he at last
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