I Wonder
Paget, Stephen Excerpt from I Wonder: Essays for the Young PeopleThere comes a time in your life, when you play as it were a game of cards against Faith. It is the oldest of all games. You and she, across the green table of Earth, are confronted and the rule is, that you play first. You sit and stare, across the table, at the backs of her cards. You have a strong hand you hold the cruelty of Nature, ' and the iniquities of Man the facts of drink, insanity, i...