Sanine

He was ashamed of such a thought, and, putting it aside, sought for an

explanation.

"Life is conflict."

"Yes, but conflict for whom, if not for one's self, for one's own place

in the sun?"

Thus spake a voice within. Yourii affected not to hear it and strove to

think of something else. But his mind reverted to this thought without

ceasing; it tormented him even to bitter tears.