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With women in general he was truthful and sincere and would talk philosophy or Canon Law (Canon Law fascinated him, though what he knew of the subject was utter nonsense) to them on the slightest provocation. Women cannot understand honesty in a man.
In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives an idea of the speech of these people.