"DO really nice ladies smoke cigarettes, papa?" my young daughter asked of me perplexedly, awaiting an answer. "No, I don't think they do," I replied hesitatingly, the passing of severe judgments not being much to my liking. "Do really nice ladies drink whiskey?" the young interrogator continued. This time I answered with more assurance. "No. Really nice ladies do not drink whiskey." "But, papa dear, so many ladies in our cabin either drink or smoke, and I think they are very nice." My little woman is perhaps a better judge ...
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"DO really nice ladies smoke cigarettes, papa?" my young daughter asked of me perplexedly, awaiting an answer. "No, I don't think they do," I replied hesitatingly, the passing of severe judgments not being much to my liking. "Do really nice ladies drink whiskey?" the young interrogator continued. This time I answered with more assurance. "No. Really nice ladies do not drink whiskey." "But, papa dear, so many ladies in our cabin either drink or smoke, and I think they are very nice." My little woman is perhaps a better judge of human nature than her Puritanized papa; for going into the smoking-room of the Italian steamer on which we had embarked, I saw, indeed, a number of women smoking and drinking and pretending to enjoy both, with that pharisaic air of abandon which convinced me that they were "really nice" ladies. They were "sailing away for a year and a day," and were celebrating their liberation from the conventionalities of their environment by "being quite European," as one of them expressed it.
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