31/39 You will see a great many of the best people in France. I mean the long pedigrees and the high noses, and all that. Some of them are awful idiots; I advise you to take them up cautiously." "Oh, I guess I shall like them," said Newman. "I am prepared to like every one and everything in these days; I am in high good-humor." Valentin looked at him a moment in silence and then dropped himself into a chair with an unwonted air of weariness. "Take care you don't become offensive." "If any one chooses to take offense, he may. |