[The Tracer of Lost Persons by Robert W. Chambers]@TWC D-Link bookThe Tracer of Lost Persons CHAPTER XII 4/14
I'm to lock up the house and send the key to the Burglar Alarm Company to-night.
Then I go to Boston on the 12.10.Want to come? There'll be a few doing." "To Boston! What for ?" "Contracts! We can go out to Cambridge when I've finished my business. There'll be _etwas_ doing." "_Can't_ you ever recover from being an undergraduate ?" asked Gatewood, disgusted. "Well--is there anything the matter with a man getting next to a little amusement in life ?" asked Kerns.
"Do you object to my being happy ?" "Amusement? You don't know how to amuse yourself.
You don't know how to be happy.
Here you sit, day after day, swallowing Martinis--" He paused to finish his own, then resumed: "Here you sit, day after day, intellectually stultified, unemotionally ignorant of the higher and better life--" "No, I don't.
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