"I can't pity you." "But seriously, Winthrop," said Rufus, smiling in spite of himself, -- "a man may go empty-headed, but he cannot go bare- footed into a library, nor into society." "Did you go much into society at Asphodel ?" asked Winthrop.
"Not near so much as I shall -- and that's the very thing.

I _can't do_ without these things, you see.

They are necessary to me.

Even at Asphodel -- but that was nothing.

Asphodel will be a very good place for you to go to in the first instance.