[Confidence by Henry James]@TWC D-Link bookConfidence CHAPTER VIII 6/17
You have found out she is complicated!" Gordon rejoined. "My dear Gordon," Longueville exclaimed, "I don't see what it signifies to you that I should find Miss Vivian out! When a man 's in love, what need he care what other people think of the loved object ?" "It would certainly be a pity to care too much.
But there is some excuse for him in the loved object being, as you say, complicated." "Nonsense! That 's no excuse.
The loved object is always complicated." Gordon walked on in silence a moment. "Well, then, I don't care a button what you think!" "Bravo! That 's the way a man should talk," cried Longueville. Gordon indulged in another fit of meditation, and then he said-- "Now that leaves you at liberty to say what you please." "Ah, my dear fellow, you are ridiculous!" said Bernard. "That 's precisely what I want you to say.
You always think me too reasonable." "Well, I go back to my first assertion.
I don't know Miss Vivian--I mean I don't know her to have opinions about her.
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