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                            THE HOUSE OF PRIDE 



THE HOUSE OF PRIDE 



                          By Jack London 



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     Percival Ford   wondered why  he had   come。              He did   not   dance。    He 

did    not care much for army people。            Yet he knew them allgliding and 

revolving   there   on   the   broad   lanai   of   the   Seaside�察  �the   officers   in their 

fresh´starched   uniforms   of   white�察  �the   civilians   in   white   and   black�察  �and 

the  women   bare  of   shoulders   and   arms。       After   two   years   in  Honolulu 

the Twentieth   was   departing   to   its   new   station   in Alaska�察    �and   Percival 

Ford�察�as one of the big men of the Islands�察�could not                 help knowing the 

officers and their women。 

     But between knowing and liking was a vast gulf。                  The army women 

frightened him just a little。       They were in ways quite different            from the 

women       he   liked    bestthe    elderly   women�察     �the   spinsters    and     the 

bespectacled maidens�察�and the very serious women of all ages                    whom he 

met    on   church    and   library   and   kindergarten     committees�察     �who    came 

meekly to him for contributions and advice。               He ruled those       women by 

virtue of his superior mentality�察�his great wealth�察�and the                high place he 

occupied in the commercial baronage of Hawaii。                 And he      was not afraid 

of them in the least。       Sex�察�with them�察�was not         obtrusive。      Yes�察�that was 

it。   There     was   in  them    something     else�察 �or   more�察    �than   the  assertive 

grossness of life。      He was fastidious�察�he         acknowledged that to himself�察�

and these army women�察�with their bare               shoulders and naked arms�察�their 

straight´looking   eyes�察  �their     vitality   and   challenging   femaleness�察  �jarred 

upon his sensibilities。 

     Nor   did   he   get   on   better   with   the   army   men�察  �who   took   life   lightly�察�

drinking and smoking and swearing their way through life and                     asserting 

the   essential   grossness   of   flesh   no   less   shamelessly   than  their   women。 

He was always uncomfortable in the company of the army                      men。      They 

seemed      uncomfortable�察      �too。   And      he  felt�察 �always�察   �that    they    were 

laughing     at  him    up  their   sleeves�察  �or  pitying   him�察  �or   tolerating    him。 

Then�察�too�察�they seemed�察�by mere contiguity�察�to               emphasize a lack in him�察�

to call attention to that in them which he             did not possess and which he 

thanked God he did not possess。            Faugh�       �They were like their women� �

     In   fact�察  �Percival   Ford   was   no   more   a   woman's   man   than   he   was   a 

man's      man。      A    glance    at  him   told   the   reason。     He    had   a   good 

constitution�察     �never was on intimate terms with sickness�察�nor even mild 



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disorders�察     �but   he   lacked   vitality。   His   was   a   negative   organism。      No 

blood with       a ferment in it could have nourished and shaped that long and 

narrow      face�察  �those   thin   lips�察  �lean  cheeks�察  �and   the   small�察  �sharp   eyes。 

The     thatch    of   hair�察 �dust´coloured�察    �straight   and   sparse�察   �advertised    the 

niggard soil�察�as did the nose�察�thin�察�delicately modelled�察�and just                   hinting 

the suggestion of a   beak。         His meagre   blood had denied him              much   of 

life�察�and permitted him to be an extremist in one thing                 only�察�which thing 

was righteousness。         Over right conduct he pondered              and agonized�察�and 

that   he   should   do   right   was   as   necessary   to   his  nature   as   loving   and 

being loved were necessary to commoner clay。 

     He   was   sitting   under   the   algaroba   trees   between   the   lanai   and   the 

beach。     His    eyes    wandered     over    the  dancers    and   he   turned    his  head 

away      and    gazed    seaward      across    the   mellow´sounding         surf   to   the 

Southern   Cross   burning   low   on   the   horizon。         He   was   irritated   by   the 

bare shoulders and arms of the women。                 If he had a daughter he would 

never permit it�察�never。        But his hypothesis was the sheerest             abstraction。 

The   thought   process   had   been   accompanied   by   no   inner        vision   of   that 

daughter。      He did not see a daughter with arms and              shoulders。      Instead�察�

he   smiled   at   the   remote   contingency  of     marriage。      He   was   thirty´five�察�

and�察�having had no personal           experience of love�察�he looked upon it�察�not as 

mythical�察    �but   as   bestial。    Anybody       could    marry。    The     Japanese    and 

Chinese   coolies�察     �toiling   on   the   sugar   plantations   and   in   the   rice´fields�察�

married。        They     invariably     married    at  the   first  opportunity。     It   was 

because      they were so low in the scale of life。             There was nothing else 

for    them  to   do。    They   were   like   the   army   men   and   women。       But   for 

him     there were other and higher things。             He was different from them 

from   all   of   them。   He   was   proud   of   how   he   happened   to   be。    He   had 

come of no petty love´match。            He had come of lofty conception of              duty 

and of devotion to a cause。          His father had not married for           love。    Love 

was a madness that had never perturbed Isaac Ford。                  When      he answered 

the   call   to   go   to   the   heathen   with   the   message   of   life�察�he   had   had   no 

thought and no desire for marriage。              In this they were        alike�察�his father 

and    he。    But    the   Board    of   Missions     was   economical。         With     New 

England      thrift   it  weighed     and   measured      and    decided    that    married 



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missionaries   were   less   expensive   per   capita   and   more      efficacious。     So 

the   Board   commanded Isaac   Ford to   marry。            Furthermore�察 �it   furnished 

him with a wife�察�another zealous soul with             no thought of marriage�察�intent 

only   on   doing   the   Lord's   work   among      the   heathen。      They   saw   each 

other   for   the   first   time   in   Boston。 The    Board   brought   them   together�察�

arranged everything�察�and b
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