A COLLEGE EDUCATION
fellow that looks eminently incapable of having his feelings hurt.
But he was a very serious person, like his father. He was taking the things said to him at the club seriously, carrying them up to the campus with him, and repeating them to himself in bed, feverishly, when he ought to have been asleep.
The others at the table caught it about as badly, sometimes worse, but he did not take that into consideration, for he was not thinking about the others. So he concluded that they all considered him a boot-licker, a schemer, an utterly unscrupulous politician and a coward. What would be the object in talking as they did, unless they meant him to see a foundation of truth under it? he asked himself.
The worst of it was that when he stopped to consider carefully he did see a foundation of truth under some of it. But he did not stop there; that only set him going. He made up his mind to be quite honest with himself. He became still more serious. And in a short time he was wondering if there was any good in himself at all.
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