Then I didn't know whether to have contempt for us fools who live and endure the eternal folly, or whether I ought to pity Basswood Junction and Princeton, because life is all so awfully hard and hopeless.

Meantime, Old Mr.World went right on--didn't stop to ask me anything.
"You can understand these things took a little time.

Meantime, my dad had sized me up as one more young man ruined by college life.

The old man had a heap of sense in him, and he did the right thing.

He told me to go to the devil." "So you came West ?" "So I came West.