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"I like the idea. Such people could become fishers--permanently,
and grow very wise from so much brain food."
"They wouldn't eat, Mr. Armitage. Brain-food forsooth! You talk like a
breakfast-food advertisement. My idea--mine, please note--is for such
fortunate people to sail in pretty little boats with orange-tinted sails
and pick up lost dreams. I got a hint of that in a pretty poem once--
"'Time seemed to pause a little pace,
I heard a dream go by.'"
"But out here in mid-ocean a little boat with lateen sails wouldn't have
much show. And dreams passing over--the idea is pretty, and is creditable
to your imagination. But I thought your fancy was more militant. Now, for
example, you like battle pictures--" he said, and paused inquiringly.
She looked at him quickly.
"How do you know I do?"
"You like Detaille particularly."
"Am I to defend my taste?--what's the answer, if you don't mind?"
"Detaille is much to my liking, also; but I prefer Flameng, as a strictly
personal matter. That was a wonderful collection of military and battle
pictures shown in Paris last winter.


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