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"I areatly admire this Miss Spencer?"

"Oh, but I do; truly I do You rateful No one

has ever helped me more, and beneath this mask of artificiality she is

really a noble-hearted woman I do not understand the necessity for

people to lead false lives Is it this way in all society--Eastern

society, I mean? Do men and women there continually sche parts like so many play-actors?"

"It is far too co

"What is known as fashionable social life has become an almost pitiful

sham, and you can scarcely conceive the relief it is to meet with one

utterly uncontaminated by its miserable deceits, its shallow

make-believes It is no wonder you shock the nerves of such people;

the deed is easily accoravely, striving to

make him comprehend "I try so hard to be--be commonplace, and--and

satisfied Only there is so much that seems silly, useless, pitifully

contemptible that I lose all patience Perhaps I need proper training

in what Miss Spencer calls refinement; but why should I pretend to like

what I don't like, and to believe what I don't believe? Cannot one act

a lie as well as speak one? And is it no longer right to search after