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Updated: May 13, 2025
A young man he was and yet old; for while his body told of youth, his face bespoke age the unnatural forced age the hot-housed growth of they who live in the froth of life in the froth that it is hard to tell from the scum. He was tall, and well-set-up. His clothes hung well about his body; they were of fine texture and make, yet unpressed, uncared for.
The body can be accustomed to the deadliest poisons, so that they become harmless even useful even a necessary aid to life. In the same way the mind can grow accustomed to the cruelest calamities, tolerate them, use them to attain a strength and power the hot-housed soul never gets.
Bud Tipworthy had been sent out to besiege Miss Tibbs, all of whose recent buds of rhyme had been hot-housed into inky blossom during the week, and after a long absence the youth returned with a somewhat abrupt quatrain, entitled "The Parisians of Old," which she had produced while he waited only four lines, according to the measure they meted, which was not regardful of art less than a drop in the bucket, or, to preserve the figure, a single posy where they needed a bouquet.
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