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"Certainly; a man that can't be a boy with his children deserves to have
none. Now the reason I am a bachelor is that I feared I could never
unbend, being somewhat remarkable for my perpendic"--
The word was cut off by a sudden movement; the children in their playful
struggles had, in fact, thrown him down. In a moment more they were on
his back and he trotting round the room with the grace of an elephant.
"Come, children," said the father, "that was a rough joke. Get off, now,
and go for your bread and milk."
Rather reluctantly they obeyed, casting wishful glances backward to the
grown-up boy with whom they had hoped to have a frolic.
"Glad to see you," said Mr. Holworthy. "You have been unsocial, lately."
"Yes; all the effect of the panic. I am such a butterfly that I seem out
of place in a work-a-day community. I am constantly advised, like the
volatile person in the fable, to learn wisdom from my aunt; but I can't,
for the soul of me."
"You ought to visit the more, to cheer the wretched and downcast."
"Oh, but it's a fearful waste of magnetism.


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