and accepted it. He suggested that I should
follow him in the fall, and complete my course
at Harvard. He had found out about Lena
-- not from me -- and he talked to me seri-
ously.

"You won't do anything here now. You
should either quit school and go to work, or
change your college and begin again in earn-
est. You won't recover yourself while you
are playing about with this handsome Nor-
wegian. Yes, I've seen her with you at the
theater. She's very pretty, and perfectly irre-
sponsible, I should judge."

Cleric wrote my grandfather that he would
like to take me East with him. To my aston-
ishment, grandfather replied that I might go
if I wished. I was both glad and sorry on
the day when the letter came. I stayed in
my room all evening and thought things over;
I even tried to persuade myself that I was
standing in Lena's way -- it is so necessary
to be a little noble! -- and that if she had not
me to play with, she would probably marry
and secure her future.

The next evening I went to call on Lena.
I found her propped up on the couch in her
bay window, with her foot in a big slipper. An

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