Americans -- Europe -- Fiction; Cape Cod (Mass.) -- Fiction
Hephzy nodded. “We're all quahaugs,” she declared. “Most of us, anyhow.
That's the trouble with all the folks of all the nations; they stay in
their shells and they don't try to know and understand their neighbors.
Kent, you used to be a quahaug--a different kind of one--but that kind,
too. I was a quahaug afore I lived in Mayberry. That's who makes wars
like this dreadful one--quahaugs. We know better now--you and Frances
and I. We've found out that, down underneath, there's precious little
difference. Humans are humans.”
She paused and then, as a final summing up, added:
“I guess that's it: American or German or French or anything--nice folks
are nice folks anywhere.”
THE END
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