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Amory
's
two
years
at
St.
Regis
'
,
though
in
turn
painful
and
triumphant
,
had
as
little
real
significance
in
his
own
life
as
the
American
"
prep
"
school
,
crushed
as
it
is
under
the
heel
of
the
universities
,
has
to
American
life
in
general
.
We
have
no
Eton
to
create
the
self-consciousness
of
a
governing
class
;
we
have
,
instead
,
clean
,
flaccid
and
innocuous
preparatory
schools
.
He
went
all
wrong
at
the
start
,
was
generally
considered
both
conceited
and
arrogant
,
and
universally
detested
.
He
played
football
intensely
,
alternating
a
reckless
brilliancy
with
a
tendency
to
keep
himself
as
safe
from
hazard
as
decency
would
permit
.
In
a
wild
panic
he
backed
out
of
a
fight
with
a
boy
his
own
size
,
to
a
chorus
of
scorn
,
and
a
week
later
,
in
desperation
,
picked
a
battle
with
another
boy
very
much
bigger
,
from
which
he
emerged
badly
beaten
,
but
rather
proud
of
himself
.
He
was
resentful
against
all
those
in
authority
over
him
,
and
this
,
combined
with
a
lazy
indifference
toward
his
work
,
exasperated
every
master
in
school
.
He
grew
discouraged
and
imagined
himself
a
pariah
;
took
to
sulking
in
corners
and
reading
after
lights
.
With
a
dread
of
being
alone
he
attached
a
few
friends
,
but
since
they
were
not
among
the
elite
of
the
school
,
he
used
them
simply
as
mirrors
of
himself
,
audiences
before
which
he
might
do
that
posing
absolutely
essential
to
him
.
He
was
unbearably
lonely
,
desperately
unhappy
.
There
were
some
few
grains
of
comfort
.
Whenever
Amory
was
submerged
,
his
vanity
was
the
last
part
to
go
below
the
surface
,
so
he
could
still
enjoy
a
comfortable
glow
when
"
Wookey-wookey
,
"
the
deaf
old
housekeeper
,
told
him
that
he
was
the
best-looking
boy
she
had
ever
seen
.
It
had
pleased
him
to
be
the
lightest
and
youngest
man
on
the
first
football
squad
;
it
pleased
him
when
Doctor
Dougall
told
him
at
the
end
of
a
heated
conference
that
he
could
,
if
he
wished
,
get
the
best
marks
in
school
.
But
Doctor
Dougall
was
wrong
.
It
was
temperamentally
impossible
for
Amory
to
get
the
best
marks
in
school
.
Miserable
,
confined
to
bounds
,
unpopular
with
both
faculty
and
students
--
that
was
Amory
's
first
term
.
But
at
Christmas
he
had
returned
to
Minneapolis
,
tight-lipped
and
strangely
jubilant
.
"
Oh
,
I
was
sort
of
fresh
at
first
,
"
he
told
Frog
Parker
patronizingly
,
"
but
I
got
along
fine
--
lightest
man
on
the
squad
.
You
ought
to
go
away
to
school
,
Froggy
.
It
's
great
stuff
.
"
INCIDENT
OF
THE
WELL-MEANING
PROFESSOR
On
the
last
night
of
his
first
term
,
Mr.
Margotson
,
the
senior
master
,
sent
word
to
study
hall
that
Amory
was
to
come
to
his
room
at
nine
.
Amory
suspected
that
advice
was
forthcoming
,
but
he
determined
to
be
courteous
,
because
this
Mr.
Margotson
had
been
kindly
disposed
toward
him
.
His
summoner
received
him
gravely
,
and
motioned
him
to
a
chair
.
He
hemmed
several
times
and
looked
consciously
kind
,
as
a
man
will
when
he
knows
he
's
on
delicate
ground
.
