I think that agriculture
might suit me. It is a meditative occupation; and when all is said,
I am not a man of action. I haven't the qualities for the part."
She looked up into his face, and there was a wistful smile in her
deep blue eyes.
"Is there any part for which you have not the qualities, I wonder?"
"Do you really? Yet you cannot say that I have made a success of
any of those which I have played. I have always ended by running
away. I am running away now from a thriving fencing-academy, which
is likely to become the property of Le Duc. That comes of having
gone into politics, from which I am also running away. It is the
one thing in which I really excel. That, too, is an attribute of
Scaramouche."
"Why will you always be deriding yourself?" she wondered.
"Because I recognize myself for part of this mad world, I suppose.
You wouldn't have me take it seriously? I should lose my reason
utterly if I did; especially since discovering my parents."
"Don't, Andre!" she begged him. "You are insincere, you know.
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