5/2/2023 0 Comments Steward hospitalsFinally I came on deck and sang coon songs with Miss X., sitting in our steamer chairs. Then I thought I had lost one of my brushes, which I hadn’t, though I did lose one of my stylo pencils. Then I discovered that I had no place for my derby hat save on my head, so I went back and packed my cap. Then I came on deck and found that I had forgotten to pack my ship blanket, and a steamer rug, which I forthwith went and packed. I went forthwith and paid them, relieving my soul of a great weight. If there is, it’s one’s duty to get along and have money and be happy. Morals-they are built up on a lack of imagination and physical vigor tenderness-well, you have to take care of yourself duty-there isn’t any such thing. They had never learned how to live they had never understood what the joy of freedom in sex was. English conventional women were frumps and fools. She had told me before, and this conversation brought it out again, that her thoughts were of summer and winter resorts, exquisite creations in the way of clothing, diamonds,23 open balconies of restaurants commanding charming vistas, gambling tables at Monte Carlo, Aix-les-Bains, Ostend and elsewhere, to say nothing of absolutely untrammeled sex relations. But even that, according to Miss X., was not enough for her. He loves power, authority, to be able to say, “Go and he goeth,�?or, “Come and he cometh.�?The rest he will waive. He wants to be an officer or a director of something, a poet, anything you please for the sake of being it-not for the sake of living. The American-the average American-I am sure loves power, the ability to do something, far more earnestly than he loves mere living. He has had quite another thought in his mind. No American that I have ever known has had the idea of laying up just so much, a moderate amount, and then retiring and living. as contrasted with the American standard which is, or has been up to this time, something decidedly different, I am sure. I opened my eyes slightly, for I thought Paris was reasonable but not so-no more so than New York, I understood, if you did the same things.Īnd there you have the European standard according to Miss X. WHILE I was lying in my berth the fifth morning, I heard the room steward outside my door tell some one that he thought we reached Fishguard at one-thirty. ![]() “Oh, having a nice country-house within a short traveling distance of London or Paris, and being able to dine at the best restaurants and visit the best theaters once or twice a week to go to Paris or Monte Carlo or Scheveningen or Ostend two or three or four, or as many times a year as they please to wear good clothes and to be thoroughly comfortable.�? When they get that they retire and live.�? They know before they begin how much it will take to do the things that they want to do and they start22 out to make that much-not a fortune-just enough to do the things that they want to do. “Here in Europe people understand life better. ![]() I see them in Paris now and then.�?She lifted her hand.
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