Fortunately, a film can prove nothing but a
resemblance.
BURGE-LUBIN. Thats very true. After all, the whole thing is confounded
nonsense, isnt it?
CONFUCIUS [_raising his head to look at him_] You have decided not to
believe it now that you realize its inconveniences. That is the English
method. It may not work in this case.
BURGE-LUBIN. English be hanged! It's common sense. You know, those two
people got us hypnotized: not a doubt of it. They must have been kidding
us. They were, werent they?
CONFUCIUS. You looked into that woman's face; and you believed.
BURGE-LUBIN. Just so. Thats where she had me. I shouldn't have believed
her a bit if she'd turned her back to me.
CONFUCIUS [_shakes his head slowly and repeatedly_]???
BURGE-LUBIN. You really think--? [_he hesitates_].
CONFUCIUS. The Archbishop has always been a puzzle to me. Ever since
I learnt to distinguish between one English face and another I have
noticed what the woman pointed out: that the English face is not an
adult face, just as the English mind is not an adult mind.
BURGE-LUBIN.
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