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Excerpt from A Dream and a Forgetting
And John's brother Philip was killed in our Civil War. Philip was a more capable and wide-awake man than John, and his loss (the two brothers had run the farm to gether) had a bad effect. Things went slowly down hill. There was not money enough to send Fairfax to college in what Fairfax considered proper style, so he would not go at all - and therein, I think, he made a serious mistake; for if college training and associations benefit anybody, it is just such clever self-confident fel lows as Fairfax Boardwine. But he said that if he could not occupy the position of a gentleman among gentlemen, the only dignified course was to withhold his pres ence altogether, or words to that effect; an argument that had one manifest defect at least, namely, that the college could never.
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