A COLLEGE EDUCATION
not unique. This is one of the advantages of a college education.
They, his clubmates and friends, having turned Robert inside out and upside down, and rubbed him this way and that until they thought they had shown him his relative importance in the world, then turned their special attention to Skinney Harrison once more, who was getting lonely up there at the end of the table. They now considered Elliot one of themselves.
All that they had done was meant kindly. At least not unkindly, as any one ought to have seen. They liked him, for otherwise they would not have allowed him to stay there. They were merely giving him his share with the rest, and, perhaps, were rather generous toward him because they deemed that his need was greater.
No one knew that it was going in deep. If they had they would have let up as they always did with Skinney Harrison when his jaw dropped. Elliot had not again lost control of his temper, answered back about as well as the average, and was the sort of
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