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Updated: June 22, 2025
I have a sort of natural distrust of them all, the men more than the women." She looked thoughtful. "Artists, you mean?" drawing her words slowly. "What is your business?" "Coal." "I don't feel any natural distrust of business men, and I know ever so many. I don't know any coal-men, but I think I could become very much interested in coal. Am I larger-minded than you?" McKann laughed.
Is it merely that you happen to dislike my personality? In that case, of course, I won't press you." "No," McKann frowned, "I perhaps dislike your professional personality. As I told you, I have a natural distrust of your variety." "Natural, I wonder?" Kitty murmured. "I don't see why you should naturally dislike singers any more than I naturally dislike coal-men.
I don't classify people by their occupations. Doubtless I should find some coal-men repulsive, and you may find some singers so. But I have reason to believe that, at least, I'm one of the less repellent." "I don't doubt it," McKann laughed, "and you're a shrewd woman to boot. But you are, all of you, according to my standards, light people. You're brilliant, some of you, but you've no depth."
The oyster-men, the coal-men, and the women at the fruit-stalls in his neighborhood, all knew him as a pleasant old gentleman, always ready for a joke. One day, when he was buying some peaches, he said to the woman, "A serious accident happened at our house last night. I killed two robbers." "Dear me!" she exclaimed. "Were they young men, or old convicts? Had they ever been in Sing Sing?"
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