There were little prejudices;--
you can understand that.'
'Oh yes.'
'We who wear black coats could not bring ourselves readily to put
on scarlet garments; nor should we sit comfortably with our legs
crossed like Turks.'
'I am your scarlet coat and our cross-legged Turk,' she said, with
feigned self-reproach in her voice, but with a sparkle of mirth in
her eye.
'But when I have once got into my scarlet coat I can be very proud
of it, and when I am once seated in my divan I shall find it of
all postures the easiest. Do you understand me?'
'I think so.'
'Not a shade of any prejudice shall be left to darken my mind.
There shall be no feeling but that you are in truth his chosen
wife. After all neither can country, nor race, nor rank, nor
wealth, make a good woman. Education can do much. But nature must
have done much also.'
'Do not expect too much of me.'
'I will so expect that all shall be taken for the best. You know,
I think, that I have liked you since I first saw you.'
'I know that you have always been good to me.
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