26/70 That is why we are a prey to the evils attending greatness.Listen.Here is a crying sin--an infernal paradox. Take this twentieth-century girl, this American girl who is the finest creation of the ages. A young and healthy girl, the most perfect type of culture possible to the freest and greatest city on earth--New York! She holds absolutely an unreal, untrue position in the scheme of existence. And I've been trying to tell you why." "My dear, let me get a word in, will you," complained Eleanor. |