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"About what, Miss Thorn?"
"About Americans. They talk better than Englishmen, as a rule."
"But I am comparing Americans with the whole mass of Europeans," John
objected. "The English are a rather silent race, I should say."
"Cold, you think?" suggested Joe.
"No, not cold. Perhaps less cold than we are; but less demonstrative."
"I like that," answered Joe. "I like people to feel more than they show."
"Why?" asked John. "Why should not people be perfectly natural, and show
when they feel anything, or be cold when they do not?" "I think when you
know some one feels a great deal and hides it, that gives one the idea of
reserved strength."
They had reached a distant part of the ice, and were slowly skating round
the limits of a little bay, where the slanting moonbeams fell through tall
old trees upon the glinting black surface. They were quite alone, only in
the distance they could hear the long-drawn clang and ring of the other
skaters, echoing all along the lake with a tremulous musical sound in the
still bright night.


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