Out of the Past — page 153: what you’re looking at

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I50 Out of the Past. exhibit a person like a piece of ancient glass in a cabinet. Number two—The young man who has a fit of love like a summer madness, chilled dumb by November. Num- ber three—The middle-aged who wants to settle down and keep one for his sole comfort. Number four—The flurried, florid liaison—but that’s out of the question. Where are you in the category? You don't fit, you see. You are no Frenchman.” “Then what ?” “Just a downright American. You don’t know the dialect, the accent, the manner. You don’t know our way of fun—but you do love like an American gentle- man.” Robert blushed. bs “And it is so much nicer,’ she added, with an inde- scribable sigh of satisfaction. ~“Parbleu! How do you know?” ““Well—you see, in America, one learns to know some- thing about men, because they have a way of falling in love with you, and you have to let them try to win, and then if they don’t, you say no, and after awhile you know something about them.” “I see. That is a shocking vista to my eyes.” “But wasn’t that just what you did? Did you woo like a Frenchman ?” 3 “Perhaps not——’ CONRNICOOOKSHE®