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Updated: July 24, 2025
Of everything we talked, even of Breckenridge of Breckenridge as a baby, a boy, a college-man. She explained his inheritance, his weaknesses, his virtues. She spoke of Gale Oliphant and the interrupted marriage. Once once only she referred to me. "Oh, dear, oh, dear," she began one day with a sigh, "'the best-laid plans of mice and men' Oh, dear, oh, dear!
Sir James is by education and habit, and we were going to add, by the original turn of his mind, a college-man; and perhaps he would have passed his time most happily and respectably, had he devoted himself entirely to that kind of life.
He had never thought of being a college-man and nothing in that life appealed to him. He urged upon his father the loss of time that the course would entail, but his father met this objection by offering to pay for any artistic tuition that would not interfere with the regular college work.
"But you're trying to be one, ain't you, mammy?" She made him no reply, and presently reverted to their former topic perhaps took refuge in it. "I think it might be managed some day!" she said. "You could go on with your trade after, if you liked. Why shouldn't a college-man be a tradesman? Why shouldn't a tradesman know as much as a gentleman?" "Why, indeed, mother!
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