9/22 As a boy he had voyaged among books, and they had given him a world where he could shape his career according to his whimsical fancy. Not that Mr.McCunn was what is known as a great reader. He read slowly and fastidiously, and sought in literature for one thing alone. Sir Walter Scott had been his first guide, but he read the novels not for their insight into human character or for their historical pageantry, but because they gave him material wherewith to construct fantastic journeys. |