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"What could one describe as the French doing ht athey do, they have not to have a

pretext for action as we have--They are much less hypocritical and

self-conscious"

I wanted to make her talk--

"Why are we such hypocrites?"

"Because we have set up an impossible standard for ourselves, and hate

to show each other that we cannot act up to it"

"Yes, we conceal every feeling--We show indifference e feel

interest--We pretend we have come on business e have come simply

to see someone we are attracted by--"

She let the conversation drop This provoked me, as her last remark

showed how far froain--Confound the woman!

"Please read," I said at last in desperation, and I closed my one eye

She picked up a book--it happened to be a volume of de Musset--and she

read at rando

I remember was "Mimi Pinson"--and when I awoke it was past six o'clock

and she had gone home