20/52 "I am not cultivated, I am not even educated; I know nothing about history, or art, or foreign tongues, or any other learned matters. But I am not a fool, either, and I shall undertake to know something about Europe by the time I have done with it. I feel something under my ribs here," he added in a moment, "that I can't explain--a sort of a mighty hankering, a desire to stretch out and haul in." "Bravo!" said Mrs.Tristram, "that is very fine. You are the great Western Barbarian, stepping forth in his innocence and might, gazing a while at this poor effete Old World and then swooping down on it." "Oh, come," said Newman. "I am not a barbarian, by a good deal. |