"It smacks of insincerity; it really is untrue.

And it is so easy to slip into it.
Look at the old-timers,--'sour-doughs' as they proudly call themselves.
Just because they have been in the country a few years, they let themselves grow wild and woolly and glorify in it.

They may not know it, but it is a pose.

In so far as they cultivate salient peculiarities, they cultivate falseness to themselves and live lies." "I hardly think you are wholly just," Frona said, in defence of her chosen heroes.

"I do like what you say about the matter in general, and I detest posing, but the majority of the old-timers would be peculiar in any country, under any circumstances.