The Man From St. Petersburg

by Ken Follett

He was happy, she thought, only because he had never known that love could be wild and hungry.

“The morality of Tolstoy. Doing good may not make you happy, but doing wrong will certainly make you unhappy.”

happy vs unhappy

Once a young maiden climbed an old man’s knee Begged for a story, “Do, Uncle, please, Why are you single, why live alone? Have you no babies, have you no home?” “I had a sweetheart, years, years ago; Where is she now, pet, you will soon know List to my story, I’ll tell it all; I believed her faithless, after the ball.”