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children are most sincere; they have not yet had time to become accomplished in duplicity; they will tell lies but they do it inartificially, and you know they are lying; but the grown-up people are very false; they deceive strangers, they deceive each other

inhabitants very treacherous; they all think it lawful to tell lies; they call it politeness to profess friendship where they feel hatred

I long to live once more among Protestants; they are more honest than Catholics

you must be two or three and twenty, I should think?

Pas encore, monsieur - en un mois j'aurai dix-neuf ans

Well, nineteen is a mature age ...

But (slowly & w/embarrassment) my parents were not all the two Genovese.

Say BOTH, instead of "all the two"

she liked to learn, but hated to teach

there were only about dozen of them, but they made as much noise as might have sufficed for fifty

she could look @ me, it seemed, when perplexed & bewildered, but not when gratified; I thought that scarcely fair.

she shrank from me; I was man & heretic; she, destined nun & devoted Catholic: thus four-fold wall of separation divided her mind from mine

Our likings are regulated by our circumstances. artist prefers hilly country because it is picturesque; engineer flat one because convenient; man of pleasure likes what he calls "fine woman" - she suits him; fashionable young gentleman admires fashionable young lady - she is of his kind ...