They looked perfectly comfortable and he was
unconscious of them. This is where the city men have an advantage over
us country-breds. I can carry off my old clothes without being
awkward. I could enter a fine drawing-room in the patched blouse I
wear a-hunting with more ease than in that solemn-looking frock-coat I
bought at the county town five years ago. In that garment I feel that
"I am." No one could ever convince me that I am a mere thought, a
dream, a shadow. Every pull in the shoulders, every hitch in the back,
every kink in the sleeves makes me a profound materialist. But I don't
suppose Weston would bother spreading the tails out when he sat down.
I doubt if he would know he had it on. He is so easy in his ways. I
saw that as he came swinging around the house, and I envied him for it.
"Well, I am in luck!" he cried cheerfully. "Here I came to see the
valley's soldier and I find him holding the valley's flower."
This to me was rather an astounding thing to say, and if he intended to
disable me in the first skirmish he succeeded admirably, for my only
answer was a laugh; and the more I laughed the more foolish and
slow-witted I felt.
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