But the suppleness, enthusiasm, even the joy ofinjustice, this little truth which we practice innocentlyand which makes its beautiful: we are subtle and ourfingers are malleable and slippery as the branches ofthat sinuous, almost liquid plant; it defines our soul, saythe cynics. That too is a point of view; but all flowers arenot sacred, fortunately, and the divine thing in us is tocall to anti- human action. I am speaking of a paperflower for the buttonholes of the gentlemen whofrequent the ball of masked life, the kitchen of grace,white cousins lithe or fat. They traffic with whatever wehave selected.s upp len ess