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"
I
wonder
about
actresses
;
are
they
all
pretty
bad
?
"
"
No
,
sir
,
not
by
a
darn
sight
,
"
said
the
worldly
youth
with
emphasis
,
"
and
I
know
that
girl
's
as
good
as
gold
.
I
can
tell
.
"
They
wandered
on
,
mixing
in
the
Broadway
crowd
,
dreaming
on
the
music
that
eddied
out
of
the
cafes
.
New
faces
flashed
on
and
off
like
myriad
lights
,
pale
or
rouged
faces
,
tired
,
yet
sustained
by
a
weary
excitement
.
Amory
watched
them
in
fascination
.
He
was
planning
his
life
.
He
was
going
to
live
in
New
York
,
and
be
known
at
every
restaurant
and
cafe
,
wearing
a
dress-suit
from
early
evening
to
early
morning
,
sleeping
away
the
dull
hours
of
the
forenoon
.
"
Yes
,
sir
,
I
'd
marry
that
girl
to-night
!
"
HEROIC
IN
GENERAL
TONE
October
of
his
second
and
last
year
at
St.
Regis
'
was
a
high
point
in
Amory
's
memory
.
The
game
with
Groton
was
played
from
three
of
a
snappy
,
exhilarating
afternoon
far
into
the
crisp
autumnal
twilight
,
and
Amory
at
quarter-back
,
exhorting
in
wild
despair
,
making
impossible
tackles
,
calling
signals
in
a
voice
that
had
diminished
to
a
hoarse
,
furious
whisper
,
yet
found
time
to
revel
in
the
blood-stained
bandage
around
his
head
,
and
the
straining
,
glorious
heroism
of
plunging
,
crashing
bodies
and
aching
limbs
.
For
those
minutes
courage
flowed
like
wine
out
of
the
November
dusk
,
and
he
was
the
eternal
hero
,
one
with
the
sea-rover
on
the
prow
of
a
Norse
galley
,
one
with
Roland
and
Horatius
,
Sir
Nigel
and
Ted
Coy
,
scraped
and
stripped
into
trim
and
then
flung
by
his
own
will
into
the
breach
,
beating
back
the
tide
,
hearing
from
afar
the
thunder
of
cheers
...
finally
bruised
and
weary
,
but
still
elusive
,
circling
an
end
,
twisting
,
changing
pace
,
straight-arming
...
falling
behind
the
Groton
goal
with
two
men
on
his
legs
,
in
the
only
touchdown
of
the
game
.
THE
PHILOSOPHY
OF
THE
SLICKER
From
the
scoffing
superiority
of
sixth-form
year
and
success
Amory
looked
back
with
cynical
wonder
on
his
status
of
the
year
before
.
He
was
changed
as
completely
as
Amory
Blaine
could
ever
be
changed
.
Amory
plus
Beatrice
plus
two
years
in
Minneapolis
--
these
had
been
his
ingredients
when
he
entered
St.
Regis
'
.
But
the
Minneapolis
years
were
not
a
thick
enough
overlay
to
conceal
the
"
Amory
plus
Beatrice
"
from
the
ferreting
eyes
of
a
boarding-school
,
so
St.
Regis
'
had
very
painfully
drilled
Beatrice
out
of
him
,
and
begun
to
lay
down
new
and
more
conventional
planking
on
the
fundamental
Amory
.
But
both
St.
Regis
'
and
Amory
were
unconscious
of
the
fact
that
this
fundamental
Amory
had
not
in
himself
changed
.
Those
qualities
for
which
he
had
suffered
,
his
moodiness
,
his
tendency
to
pose
,
his
laziness
,
and
his
love
of
playing
the
fool
,
were
now
taken
as
a
matter
of
course
,
recognized
eccentricities
in
a
star
quarter-back
,
a
clever
actor
,
and
the
editor
of
the
St.
Regis
Tattler
:
it
puzzled
him
to
see
impressionable
small
boys
imitating
the
very
vanities
that
had
not
long
ago
been
contemptible
weaknesses
.
