"
"All have their share of the good as well as the evil things of
life," he replied, a little soberly. "Doctors and lawyers included."
I did not observe any marked change in the young man, except that he
was paler, and had a different look out of his eyes from any that I
had hitherto noticed; a more matured look, which not only indicated
deeper feeling, but gave signs of will and endurance. I carried that
new expression away with me as we parted at the door of his office,
and studied it as a new revelation of the man. It was very certain
that profounder depths had been opened in his nature--opened to his
own consciousness--than had ever seen the light before. That he was
more a man than he had ever been, and more worthy to be mated with a
true woman. Up to this time I had thought of him more as a boy than
as a man, for the years had glided by so quietly that bore him
onward with the rest, that he had not arisen in my thought to the
full mental stature which the word manhood includes.
"Ah," said I, as I walked on, "what a mistake in Delia Floyd! She is
just as capable of high development as a woman as he is as a man.
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