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The Simpkins Plot

CHAPTER VIII
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As she doesn't, I'll drop her again, at once.
But what am I to do?
I began this evening with a literary allusion, and found that you'd never heard of Longfellow's 'Village Blacksmith.' That wasn't a very encouraging start, you'll admit.

Last night I tried you with art, and all you did was to mix it up with morality, which, as everybody knows, is a perfectly hopeless thing to do.

The ancient Hebrews had more sense.

They were specialists in morality, and they absolutely forbade art.

Whereas the Greeks, who were artists, went in for a thoroughly immoral kind of life.


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