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We were but a brace of lads, each on the edge of life, and as I look back on that page of my history I cannot help but shudder at the contrast between us, I bellowing like a gaby at the ache of my first calf-love and yet indeed I was hurt, and hardly and he so sweet and restrained and sane, weighing the world so wisely in his young hands.
Yet this I do feel free to say, by leave of you ladies, that calf-love has not the educative value of the genuine passion. It is blind worship by instinct; it is a sign of awakening sense, but it is not its awakener. It is a lovely thing as all quick or burning growth is, but it has little relation to the soul, and our Northern state is the more gracious that consummation of it is not feasible.
Years before, I, like most of the other town boys of my age, had taken my turn as Agatha's fetcher and carrier; but that was only a passing spasm a gust of the calf-love which stirs up momentary whirlwinds in youthful hearts. The real reason for the promise-making lay deeper.
"Why couldn't he have remained in love with Ann?" "I'm very glad he didn't," returned Lady Susan quietly. "It was only calf-love. Besides, he would have leant on Ann she's such a stalwart little soldier, you know" with a smile. Sir Philip nodded. "Yes. She'd have kept him straight," he said gloomily. "Whereas Doreen Neville's the hot-house plant type just the opposite. No good to Tony at all."
There was the virulent, spotted-all-over variety, known as calf-love; there was the kind that accompanied itself by a course of the Restoration dramatists; another form I may call the strayed-Platonic, and that may be subdivided into at least two; then there was——” “Schtop! schtop!” cried the Baron. “Ha, ha, ha! Zat will do! Teufel! I most examine my heart strictly.
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