And the boy was only one of many on whom the victory might have
fallen; but such a man becomes the only man when he takes what he finds
for himself--green bud, half blown, or open to its own deep fragrant
heart. To him that hath shall be given, and much forgiven. For it is the
law of the strong and the prophets: and a little should be left to that
Destiny which the devout revere under a gentler name.
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The affair made a splash in the social puddle, and the commotion spread
outside of it. Inside the nine-and-seventy cackled; outside similar
gallinaceous sounds. Neergard pored all day over the blue-pencilled
column, and went home, stunned; the social sheet which is taken below
stairs and read above was full of it, as was the daily press and the
mouths of people interested, uninterested, and disinterested,
legitimately or otherwise, until people began to tire of telling each
other exactly how it happened that Gerald Erroll ran away with Gladys
Orchil.
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