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"Aye," he added, his heart throbbing with the new, strange hope, "all this, please heaven, shall come to pass if things go on as they are, and no younger man with better looks crosses my path." And now that younger and better looking man had crossed his path.
As I talked the sheeted moonlight seemed to close about us, so that we stood there in a dream, in a world quite detached. She grew younger, prettier, more attractive I found myself talking all kinds of nonsense. Before I knew it I had gone very far.
"You're speaking to him, sir," smiled the cub engineer. Mr. Newnham took a quick look, readjusted his spectacles, and looked once more. Tom bore the scrutiny calmly. "I expected to find a very young man here, Mr. Reade, but you're considerably younger than I had expected. Yet Howe, in charge of the construction corps, tells me that you've been hustling matters at this field survey end.
Shall I send him over to show you how to handle a green squad?" "Don't, Sergeant!" "All right, then; I won't -unless you give me new reason to think it necessary," smiled Kelly. Then his hand, still resting on the younger man's shoulder, he walked back to where the squad waited. "I'll tell you more about it any time you want to know," was Kelly's last statement before he turned away.
When the news came of the king's captivity, the regency threatened for a moment to become difficult and stormy; all the ambition and the hatred that lay dormant in the court awoke; an attempt was made to excite in the Duke of Vendome, the head of the younger branch of the House of Bourbon, a desire to take the regent's place; the Parliament of Paris attacked the chancellor, Duprat, whom they hated not without a cause; but the Duke of Vendome was proof against the attempts which were made upon him, and frankly supported the regent, who made him the chief of her council; and the regent supported the chancellor.
The clergyman frightened the younger children; they had never seen his like either with respect to his professional robes or his superhuman clerical voice their imaginations balancing unsteadily between the impossibility of his being a man in a nightgown and the impossibility of his being a woman with a mustache. After his departure their fright and apprehensions settled on Mrs. Meredith.
After him it became increasingly clear that the true social forces were psychic, though physical conditions affected social progress. A younger school of sociologists has come into existence, and the science is being developed on that basis.
Then we set out, trying as much as possible to think that Christmas Day is different from any other day, and pleased to observe that the younger folk, at least, cherish the delusion. But just before reaching the church I say to the small lady who got the letter in the morning, and whom we generally call Tita: "When do you expect to see Charlie?" "I don't know," she answers.
The children were Jacob, at that time about six years old, and Lisbeth, a couple of years younger. Life was often a hard struggle for the mother; but they had, at any rate, a house over their heads, and they could get wood without having to go very far for it, since the forest lay almost within a stone's throw. Her full name would be Randi Newridge, or Randi Peerout.
Charles Wood of New York, W. W. Ingraham of Providence, Milo Miller and Eric Wood of Philadelphia, John Howard of Baltimore, and others are of equal class and of nearly equal promise to the boys I have mentioned. In the younger class of boys those under 15, one finds many youngsters already forming real style. At fourteen young Weiner is a stylist of the highest all-court type.
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