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America is but a poor place for the romantic book-dreamer. The demands of this new, Western life of ours are practical and earnest. Prompt action, and ready tact, are the weapons by which to meet it, and subdue it. The education of the cloister offers at best only a sound starting-point from which to leap into the tide. The father of Clarence is a cool, matter-of-fact man.
I never even went up for examination. I gave up all idea of medicine as a profession when my father died." "What are you, then?" "An idler upon the great highway a book-dreamer a library fixture." Hortense looked at me thoughtfully, with her cheek resting on her hand. "Have you done nothing but read and dream?" "Not quite. I have travelled." "With what object?" "A purely personal one.
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