because she's seen progress;

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If you won't have me change my choice of career... Do ensure that my university students prove equally inspiring. If only on occasion.

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Would you rather teach children?

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Children have a far superior grasp of Luxembourgish.

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It's not like they need it for your lectures, is it?

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Luxembourgian linguistics are difficult to conduct in any meaningful manner. In any language but Luxembourgish, isn't that so?

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Your field of expertise, of course.

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The very reason that it'd have my appreciation, if my students were equally dedicated.

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Well. Are you sure they want to learn?

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Otherwise they should surely consider attending a different course.

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With a different teacher.

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Were they to choose literature, I'd still feature on their curriculum.

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But never with the same, attractive regularity.

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You're presuming that my students are studying me rather than the reading material with which I've provided them.

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Naturally.

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As you would. Do.

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I wouldn't understand the rest of it.

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Am I supposed to lower my standards for your sake?

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Some might say you already have.

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Most often, they insist you're out of my league.

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I can't change that.

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The implication that you are or their belief in its supposed factuality?

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Neither, Mireille.

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There are very specific reasons that we won't have children, of course.

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True.

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What is it?

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I'm hardly fulfilling the traditional role, of a fruitful wife.

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Do you have to?

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If you'd prefer me to.

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I wouldn't.

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[Pause.]

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[Just a smile.]

You're not that type of woman.

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No.

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No. But we'll manage.

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In the end, you've chosen me yourself, Jean Louis.

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And I don't regret it.

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So I've learned.

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I'm not the worst teacher, either.

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[Another pause. Then, the ghost of a smile.]

In certain contexts, adequate is a compliment.

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So it is.

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Yes.

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