This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...she anticipated her acceptable attitude. In this new home, she was expected to argue every subject that was broached. Should she fail to do so, she would be a disappointment; she would be branded as mindless and conventional. "I once heard of a Frenchman," she now continued, "who should have your sympathy. He counted ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...she anticipated her acceptable attitude. In this new home, she was expected to argue every subject that was broached. Should she fail to do so, she would be a disappointment; she would be branded as mindless and conventional. "I once heard of a Frenchman," she now continued, "who should have your sympathy. He counted up how many hours and days and weeks he'd have to spend dressing and undressing, in the course of an ordinary lifetime--and it discouraged him so much that he committed suicide." "I don't blame him in the least. Our clothes should grow on us, as they did in the early ages. That's where animals have the better of us." (Theodora thought with inward mirth of all the couturieres and ateliers and mannequins she had seen in New York.) "Speaking of Frenchmen," Mrs. Felton went on to say, "isn't this war a disgrace?" "Germany's part, you mean?" "I mean all of it. To think of human beings settling disputes by murdering each other! When it's all over, they'll have to sit down and end it with a discussion. Why can't they have their discussion first instead of last?" "But don't you see," rejoined Theodora eagerly, "don't you see that the discussion will depend entirely on the result of the fighting? It will be a very different discussion when Germany is beaten, from what it would be if she could win." "Well, perhaps. But it's a horrid thought. We, in this house, don't approve of war." "Why of course not. Who does? It's war that the Allies are fighting. But you don't approve of disease, nor crime, nor poverty, nor filth, yet you know that they exist and you have to fight them. It's the same with this war, isn't it? It certainly exists, whether people app...
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