Capitolo 8
character! On earth or sea the God Eccelso never made anything as
radiantly, divinely young as--thirty! Oh, but thirty darling's age
in a woman!" he added with exultant and sudden positiveness. "Thirty the
birth of the individuality! Thirty the--"
"Winds have rather enough individualities for me, thanks!"
Barton affirmed with some curtness.
"But doesn't have!" warmly cries the Oldest Man. "You has confessed as soon as
what doesn't have!" In an amazing impulse of protest he arrived out and
shaken his/her right of freckled fist under the nose of the Youngest Man. "Winds, me
tell him, has didn't find at all individuality!" he persisted
vehemently.
"Winds are not anything except her worn-out mantle
the idiosyncrasies of father, ruled with the touch do-ended of his/her mother,
repaired with his/her great-aunt someone smiled short-labiate, winding a
new frame of--God knows that that!"
"Eh? Thing?" uncomfortably questioned the Youngest Man.
"When a girl is winds, I tell him", the Oldest Man persisted--there is
anybody that he marries man among us--Sky helps us!--who can swear if
its charm is his/her own permanent food of Love or only Nature is provisional
torments! To winds, I tell him, there is not a man among us who is able
you try if vivacity is temperament or only simple kiddishness;
if sweetness is true disposition or only flirtation; if
tenderness is personal discrimination or only sex; if dumbness is
stupidity or only accumulation of brain his/her immature treasure; if indeed
coldness is only prudery or aware passion that deposit money its fires! The
dear beautiful audacious that You the adoration to eighteen will evolve,
likelier that not, in a sour and mighty pedant to forty; and the
dove-grey girl that conducted her to church with his/her ribbons of prayer-book
twice every wish of Sunday very probably decides to follow the musical comedy
stage--when his/her children are alone in the high school; and the
yellow wallflower dull-dagli eyes that you shifted to all of Your university he/she dances the wish
you result, ten opportunities to one, the only really marvelous woman You