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and chin a certain decisiveness which in true youth is rarely developed

This characteristic arrives only with manhood, manhood that has been tried

and perhaps buffeted and perchance a little disillusioned To state that

one is young does not necessarily ireen and tender, not rounded out, ai and inconsequent Ifof these pleasing, though tangled attributes, but rather

because there exists between the two periods of progression a series of

irremediable mistakes And the subject of this brief coht about by pride or carelessness rather

than by intent

But as one to do who had both money and leisure linked to an

irresistible desire to leave behind one place or thing in pursuit of

another, indeterminately? At one time he wanted to be an artist, but his

evenly balanced self-criticis his daubs into the

ash-heap They were good daubs in a way, but were laid on without fire;

such work as any respectable schoolone in for engineering; but precise and intricate

mathematics required patience of a quality not at his command