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His widow made her home with a bachelor brother on a farm near Brandon, and the boy's early years were passed in an environment familiar to readers of American biography the simplicity, the poverty, the industry, and the serious-mindedness of rural New England.
His near-sightedness, his serious-mindedness, have militated against him, but it seems probable that he will prove the very best ruler Sweden could desire at the present juncture. He is slow to make up his mind, and will not do so until he has searched every phase and detail of the problem before him, but once he has come to a conclusion, he pursues his path without looking to the right or left.
"One has to be, sometimes," came the slow words. And at that moment all doubt of Betty's serious-mindedness departed. Brace joined them presently. He looked as if he had been straining at a leash since dinner time. "Con," he said, laying his hand on the light head bending over the dog, "now that you have talked and laughed with Betty, what have you got to say?"
His general effect was that of a cross between a parson and a shrewd Yankee a happy suggestion of righteous, plain, serious-mindedness, protected against the wiles of human society and able to protect others by a canny intelligence. For a young man he had already a considerable clientage. A certain class of people, notably the hard-headed, God-fearing, felt themselves safe in his hands.
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