The fair-haired man was one of those people whose character seems, on first acquaintance, to have some stubbornness about it. You only have to open your mouth and they are ready to argue and appear determined never to agree to something that clearly goes against the grain of their way of thinking; they would, you think, never call something stupid clever and, in particular, they will never agree to dance to someone else’s tune. But it always ends with their revealing how soft their character is by agreeing to what they refused, calling something stupid clever, and then they go off to dance
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