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Updated: October 27, 2025
How pleasantly would he have mounted the stair, laden with who knows what small gifts? a box of mignonette for the window-sill, an old book or two, as likely as not a live kitten, for indeed there was never an end to the variety or ingenuity of his offerings! How felicitous would have been his greeting! How cordial his compliments! How abiding the sense of his unpatronizing friendliness!
Fred and I had shared a dozen lively adventures with him without more than beginning yet to plumb the depths of his respect for Woman. Only an American in all the world knows how to meet Young Woman eye to eye with totally unpatronizing frankness, and he was without guile in the matter. But not so she.
Father's conscience was troubling him, not because he had taken food from the woman she had bestowed it with the friendly and unpatronizing graciousness of poor women but because he had been too cowardly to play the mouth-organ.
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