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The Real Adventure
"Indeed," continued the professor, glancing demurely down at his notes, "if one were the editor of a column ofer advice to young girls, such as I believe is to be found, along with the household hints and the dress patterns, on the ladies' page of most of our newspapersif one were the editor of such a column, he might crystallize the remarks I have been making this morning into a warningnever marry a man with a passion for principles." It drew a laugh, of course. Professorial jokes never miss fire. But the girl didn't laugh. She came to with a startshe had been staring out the windowand wrote, apparently, the fool thing down in her note-book. It was the only note she had made in thirty-five minutes. All of his brilliant exposition of the paradox of Rousseau and Robespierre (he was giving a course on the French Revolution), the strange and yet inevitable fact that the softest, most sentimental, rose-scented religion ever invented, should have produced, through its most thoroughly infatuated disciple, the ghastliest reign of terror that ever shocked the world; his masterly character study of the "sea-green incorruptible," too humane to swat a fly, yet capable of sending half of France to the guillotine in order that the half that was left might believe unanimously in the rights of man; all this the girl had let go by unheard, in favor, apparently, of the drone of a street piano, which came in through the open window on the prematurely warm March wind. Of all his philosophizing, there was not a pen-track to mar the virginity of the page she had opened her note-book to when the lecture began. ......Buy Now (To Read More)
Ebook Number: 15384
Author: Webster, Henry Kitchell
Release Date: Mar 16, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English
Illustrator: Crosby, Raymond Moreau, 1876-1945
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