13/14 A queer new sense of companionship stirred in his pulses. The bitterness of his suppressed disappointment was suddenly soothed. There was something of the excitement of the discoverer, too, in these new sensations. It seemed to him that he was finding something which had been choked out of his life and which was yet a real and natural part of it. "If you encourage me like this, you will develop the most juvenile of all failings--you will make me want to talk about myself. |