In the Way of Temptation by Timothy Shay Arthur

Martin Green was a young man of good habits, and a good conceit of himself. He had listened, often and again, with as much patience as he could assume, to warning and suggestion concerning the dangers which beset the feet of those who go out into this wicked world, and become subject to its legion of temptations. All these warnings and suggestions, he considered as so many words wasted when offered to himself.