A Fool for Love (Classic Reprint)

'..."It wasn't their metier, or the metier of their times," said Miss Virginia with conviction. "They were sword-soldiers merely because that was the only way a strong man could conquer in those days. Now it is different, and a strong man fights quite as nobly in another field--and deserves quite as much honor."
"Think so? I don't agree with you--as to the fighting, I mean. I like to take things easy. A good club, a choice of decent theaters, the society of a few charming young women like--"
She broke him with a mocking laugh.
"You were born a good many centuries too late, Mr. Adams; you would have fitted so beautifully, into decadent Rome."
"No--thanks. Twentieth-century America, with the commercial frenzy taken out of it, is good enough for me. I was telling Winton a little while ago--"
"Your friend of the Kansas City station platform?" she interrupted. "Mightn't you introduce us a little less informally?"
"Beg pardon, I'm sure--yours and...'

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