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vard, he was always the one to be taken
by the arm, turned about, and taken where
his friend desired. Don't think that he
was either foolish, shallow, or ignorant.
He knew three or four modern languages,
Latin, Greek, and everything else usually
learned at college; he had some ideas of
commerce, manufactures, agriculture, and
literature, and he estimated a new book
well, if there was nobody near to listen to
his opinion.
But it was among women that his weakness showed itself in its full strength. It
was a necessity of his nature always to
be in love with somebody, and if in rubbing
his eyes in the morning he saw no gleam
of love on the horizon, he got up out of
sorts and infallibly put his stockings on
wrong side out. Whenever he was at a
concert or a play, he began by searching
among the audience for some face that
pleased him, and was in love with it the