Now, I do not smoke cigarettes after dinner, so I can speak
freely. But, at the same time, I do not smuggle, and I do bathe on the
beach without a machine--when I am in a land where there are no sharks
and no taboo. If morally consumptive people were given a few years in the
South Seas, where they could not get away from nature, there would be
more strength and less scandal in society."
I laughed. "There is a frank note for Mr. Clovelly, who thinks he knows
the world and my sex thoroughly. He says as much in his books.--Have you
read his 'A Sweet Apocalypse'? He said more than as much to me. But he
knows a mere nothing about women--their amusing inconsistencies; their
infidelity in little things and fidelity in big things; their
self-torturings; their inability to comprehend themselves; their periods
of religious insanity; their occasional revolts against the restraints of
a woman's position, known only to themselves in their dark hours; ah,
really, Dr. Marmion, he is ignorant, I assure you. He has only got two or
three kinds of women in his mind, and the representatives of these fooled
him, as far as he went with them, to their hearts' content.
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