【正文】 there is example — and, even then, the example needs to be recognized. Thus, I was able to sit patiently and watch the hurt foot being washed, coldpoulticed, and bound up, and perceive no connexion between it and the affirmation which I had heard almost every Sunday of my life. 39。 And so on until: 39。s: she should grow no beard: she should have two breasts ...39。s six toes stirred nothing in my memory. I saw the foot resting in her mother39。s mother was anxious and worried she did not give me the feeling that I was the one regrettable and unreliable factor in an otherwise orderly life, the way most people did at home. And the room itself seemed to me the better, too, for not having groups of words hanging on the wall for people to point to in disapproval. Inste ad, this room had several drawings of horses, which I thought very fine. Presently, Sophie, tidied up now, and with the tearmarks washed away, hopped to a chair at the table. Quite restored, but for the foot, she inquired with grave hospitality whether I liked eggs. Afterwards, Mrs Wender told me to wait where I was while she carried her upstairs. She returned in a few minutes, and sat down beside me. She took my hand in hers and looked at me seriously for some moments. I could feel her anxiety strongly 。t reach her. She went on looking at me with her eyes shining, much as Sophie39。t reach them. Then she nodded slowly, and said in words: 39。re a good boy, David. You were very kind to Sophie. I want to thank you for that.39。t remember anyone saying before that I was a good boy. I knew no form of response designed to meet such an event. 39。t you?39。Yes,39。I think she39。 39。 she asked. 39。 I agreed, but a little uncertain in my tone for not realizing what the secret was. 39。 she said, looking steadily into my face. 39。 I nodded. 39。 I said again. 39。 39。 I agreed, and nodded seriously again. There was a pause — at least, her voice paused, but her thoughts went on, as if 39。 and 39。 were making desolate, unhappy echoes there. Then that changed, and she became tense and fierce and afraid inside. It was no good thinking back to her, so I tried clumsily to emphasize in words that I had meant what I said. 39。 I assured her earnestly. 39。s very, very important,39。 How can I explain to you?39。t really need to explain. Her urgent, tightstrung feeling of the importance was very plain. Her words were far less FOR months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was chatted about in the newspapers everywhere in America and discussed at countless firesides. It was a novelty in the way of excursions its like had not been thought of before, and it pelled that interest which attractive novelties always mand. It was to be a piic on a gigantic scale. The participants in it, instead of freighting an ungainly steam ferry boat with youth and beauty and pies and doughnuts, and paddling up some obscure creek to disembark upon a grassy lawn and wear themselves out with a long summer day39。 they were to scamper about the decks by day, filling the ship with shouts and laughter or read novels and poetry in the shade of the smokestacks, or watch for the jelly fish and the nautilus over the side, and the shark, the whale, and other strange monsters of the deep。 and they were to see the ships of twenty navies the customs and costumes of twenty curious peoples the great cities of half a world they were to hobnob with nobility and hold friendly converse with kings and princes, grand moguls, and the anointed lords of mighty empires! It was a brave conception。s capacity. There is good reason to believe that this pany can be easily made up in this immediate vicinity, of mutual friends and acquaintances. The steamer will be provided with every necessary fort, including library and musical instruments. An experienced physician will be on board. Leaving New York about June 1st, a middle and pleasant route will be taken across the Atlantic, and passing through the group of Azores, St. Michael will be reached in about ten days. A day or two will be spent here, enjoying the fruit and wild scenery of these islands, and the voyage continued, and Gibraltar reached in three or four days. A day or two will be spent here in looking over the wonderful subterraneous fortifications, permission to visit these galleries being readily obtained. From Gibraltar, running along the coasts of Spain and France, Marseilles will be reached in three days. Here ample time will be given not only to look over the city, which was founded six hundred years before the Christian era, and its artificial port, the finest of the kind in the Mediterranean, but to visit Paris during the Great Exhibition。s frescoes) and Bologna, they can by rail go on to Florence, and r any who may prefer to go to Rome from that point), the distance will be made in about thirty six hours。s not, I said. It39。t she using her signature? Because she knows I don39。s done. Your daughter Perdita? he asked, holding the receiver against his chest. The one with the little girl? No, that39。s my younger daughter. The one with no sense. What39。s joined the Cyclists. Bysshe looked enquiringly blank, but I was not in the mood to enlighten him. Or in the mood to talk to Mother. I know exactly what Mother will say. She39。t tell her, and then she39。m going to do about it, and there is nothing I can do about it, or I obviously would have done it alrea dy. Bysshe looked bewildered. Do you want me to tell her you39。ll have to talk to her sooner or later. I took it from him. Hello, Mother, I said. Traci, Mother said dramatically, Perdita has bee a Cyclist. I know. Why didn39。t tell me. She knows what