The town was smaller in those days, and I believe he was quite well known." "I dare say.

I've no doubt the family are all very glad to see him back, especially if they used to have him at the house a good deal, as he told you." "I don't think he meant to boast of it," she said: "He spoke of it quite calmly." George stared at her for a moment in perplexity, then perceiving that her intention was satirical, "Girls really ought to go to a man's college," he said--"just a month or two, anyhow; It'd take some of the freshness out of 'em!" "I can't believe it," she retorted, as her partner for the next dance arrived.

"It would only make them a little politer on the surface--they'd be really just as awful as ever, after you got to know them a few minutes." "What do you mean: 'after you got to know them a--'" She was departing to the dance.

"Janie and Mary Sharon told me all about what sort of a little boy you were," she said, over her shoulder.

"You must think it out!" She took wing away on the breeze of the waltz, and George, having stared gloomily after her for a few moments, postponed filling an engagement, and strolled round the fluctuating outskirts of the dance to where his uncle, George Amberson, stood smilingly watching, under one of the rose-vine arches at the entrance to the room.
"Hello, young namesake," said the uncle.