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Greenwich Village

CHAPTER IX
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He strolled in quite tranquilly for a dance,--with those things of his in full view! All the courage is not on battlefields.
Said a girl, who, Village-like, would not perjure her soul to be polite: "Why so much magenta ?" And said he quite sweetly: "Why not?
I can paint people green if I like, can't I ?" With which he glided imperturbably off in a fox trot with a girl in an "art sweater." Harry Kemp says: "They make us sick with their scurrilous, ignorant stories of the Village.

Pose?
Sure!--it's two-thirds pose.

But the rest is beautiful.

And even the pose is beautiful in its way.

Life is rotten and beautiful both at once.


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