7/14 We threw out the food so he would have to seek something to eat. The last of that breed, stem and branch! We are no longer the mud; we ourselves are the heels. Today Europe is ours; to-morrow, America!" A wintry little smile stirred the lips of the man in the chair. America, with its keen perceptions of the ridiculous, its withering humour! "No more the dissolute opera dancers will dance to your fiddling, Stefani, while we starve in the town. |