ACQUAINTANCESHIPYou see I don't care much about acquaintances. When I can come &
go, & not be misunderstood, & can be at liberty & unweighted,
uncriticized, unsuspected, as part of the very household, as at your house
& Mrs.Fairbanks's my "friendship" (as we term it) really
comes nearer being worship than anything else I can liken it to but to
be a ceremonious visitor; a person of set hours & seasons; a foreigner
in the household, without naturalization papers; an alien from whose ears
the language of the fireside is withheld; an effigy to poke politenesses
at & offend with affabilities that are hollow, invitations that are
not meant, & complementary lies that are as thin & perishable
as the air they are made of--this is Acquaintanceship, & very little
of it goes a great way with me.
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