She listened with great
attention, and when I had finished regarded me in a pitying
manner, a smile flickering over her lips.
"My dear Marcus," she said, "there is no man, however
humble-minded, who has not one colossal vanity, his knowledge
of women. He, at any rate, has established the veritable Theory
of Women. And we laugh at you, my good friend, for the more
you expound, the more do you reveal your beautiful and artistic
ignorance. Oh, Marcus, the idea of you setting up as a feminine
psychologist."
"And pray, why not?" I asked, somewhat nettled.
"Because you are that dear, impossible, lovable thing known as
Marcus Ordeyne."
This was exceedingly pretty of Judith. But really woman is the
Eternal Philistine, as Matthew Arnold has defined the term. Her
supreme characteristic is inconvincibility. I had simply wasted
my breath.
CHAPTER XII
August 3d.
_Etretat, Seine-Injerieure_:--A young fellow on the Casino
terrace this evening caught my eye, looked at me queerly, and
passed on.
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