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The Fortunate Youth

CHAPTER VII
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It was only when he discovered that she had lost her head over his romantic looks, and not over his genius and his inherited right to leadership, that he began to question her intellectual sincerity.

And there is nothing to send love scuttling away with his quiver between his legs like a note of interrogation of that sort.

The only touch of the morbid in Paul was his resentment at owing anything to his mere personal appearance.

He could not escape the easy chaff of his fellows on his "fatal beauty." He dreaded the horrible and hackneyed phrase which every fresh intimacy either with man or woman would inevitably evoke, and he hated it beyond reason.

There was a tour during which he longed for small-pox or a broken nose or facial paralysis, so that no woman should ever look at him again and no man accuse him in vulgar jest.
He played small utility parts and understudied the leading man.


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