It's _awful_ to be a bashful young man! Everybody takes advantage of you.

You are the victim of practical jokes--folks laugh if you do nothing on earth but enter a room.

If you happen to hit your foot against a stool, or trip over a rug, or call a lady "sir," the girls giggle and the boys nudge each other, as if it were extremely amusing.

But to blow up a confiding Wall street speculator, and to be swindled out of all your money by a pretty widow, is enough to make a sensitive man a raving lunatic.

I had all this to think of as I was whirled along toward home.