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Updated: May 16, 2025
"All right; I won't," he said decisively, realizing that the discussion was in danger of becoming a vituperative, schoolboy argument. "You have insisted on being considered as a man. Consistency would demand that you talk like a man, and like a man listen to man-talk. And listen you shall. It is not your fault that this unpleasantness has arisen. I do not blame you for anything; remember that.
"And I'll tell you this, sir: I'd rather be out in the country where men still wear guns, where the sky isn't stained with filthy coal smoke, where there's an horizon wide enough to breathe in, where there's man-talk instead of this damned chatter over tea-cups " "Stop!" cried John Woodbury, and leaned forward, "no matter what fool ideas you get into your head you're going to be a gentleman!"
And it permitted the swaddled American husband to stay away from home for one evening a week. The lodge was his piazza, his pavement cafe. He could shoot pool and talk man-talk and be obscene and valiant. Babbitt was what he called a "joiner" for all these reasons.
Harrison dumped his cocoon in the dressing-room and departed, in search of a little refreshing man-talk before taking up his arduous duties in connection with Arethusa. As Elinor had instructed her to wait until he should return for her, Arethusa waited.
"Then why do you love me?" he questioned, enthralled after the manner of all lovers in the everlasting query that for ever has remained unanswered. "I don't know just because I do, I guess. And that's all the satisfaction you gave me when we had that man-talk. But I have been loving you for weeks during all the time you have been so deliciously and unobtrusively jealous of Tudor."
He brightened almost playfully. "Miss Garnet, you give me more pleasure than I can quietly confess." "Why, I didn't intend to do that." "To be trusted by you is a glad honor." "Well, I do trust you, Mr. Fair. I'm trusting you now to trust me that I really want to talk man-talk.
Instead he spoke in elephant language, though he could also speak and understand other animal talk. And he could also understand man-talk, just as, in my other books, I have told you how dogs, cats, pigs and monkeys can understand what we say to them, though they cannot talk to us. "May I go out and play?" asked Tum Tum. "Oh, I guess so," answered his father. "But do not go too far away.
Once in the hall, however, Olive changed her mind about going up to Reed's room. "I think I'll wait, Mr. Brenton," she said suddenly. "Really, I have nothing much ahead of me, to-day. I can come in later, just as well; and you are a novelty, in these latter days. Go on alone, and talk man-talk to Reed. It will do him any amount more good than dozens of my visitations.
She made a moue of distaste and raised a hand protestingly. "Don't," he said. "You have no right to recoil from the mention of my love for you. Remember this is a man-talk. From the point of view of the talk, you are a man. The woman in you is only incidental, accidental, and irrelevant. You've got to listen to the bald statement of fact, strange though it is, that I love you."
But Nero had learned many more tricks than this first, easy one. He did not learn the other tricks as quickly, for they were harder, but the lion could sit up on a big wooden stool, he could stand up on his hind paws, and he would open his mouth very wide when his trainer told him to. In a way Nero had learned something of man-talk, too, for he knew what certain words meant.
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