Capitolo 77
the customs of Islam. They cannot learn them and you/they can remember them everybody
to every moment of their grapevine as the Moslems; and to do
one slips there is dead immediate to them."
Frida sincerely looked at him. "But I hope", she said with a
air of disapproval, throwing asunder a rose petal petal,,
nervously, as she spoke, "you don't put us on completely the same level
how Moslems. We am more so a lot civilized. Then very best in
every way. You know, the Mr. Ingledew", and she hesitated for a
minute, "I cannot bear to differ from you or to blame her/it in anything,
because you appear to me so wise man and good person and of good heart always
and reasonable; but it often catches me, and it also hurts me, when
You seem to speak of all of us as if we were alone so many it attaches with ferocity.
You is always speaking almost taboo, and castes and poojah, and
fetiches, as if we was not civilized people to everybody, but it send forth
barbarians. Doesn't now do you, he/she thinks--doesn't do you it admits, you, are
does a pee unreasonable bit, or in every discourteous case, of You?"
Bertram drew again with a really sorry expression on his beautiful
characteristics. "Or her Mrs. Monteith!" he cried, "Frida, I am so sorry if
I am seemed ill-mannered to You! It is the whole same thing--pure human creature
inadvertence; the inability to throw himself/herself/themselves in so little relative a
attitude. I forget each minute that you don't recognize the
the essential identity of Your own taboos and poojahs and fetiches with
the similar ones and thick taboo indistinguishable and poojahs and
fetiches of it generally attaches with ferocity. All of Them comes from the same source,
and it often holds back at the end, as in Your superstitions of temple and
Your superstitions of marriage, the original characteristics of their savage
beginnings. And as to Your being comparatively civilized, I grant
You that immediately; only it doesn't manufacture anymore necessarily him a piece
rational--certainly not a more benign, or moral, or brotherly piece