9/15 It would have broken your hearts, gentlemen, to have seen him. His black coat was buttoned up close to his chin--seedy, badly worn--he himself shabby and down at the heels, but erect and extremely courteous--a most pitiable object. My servant wasn't going to let him in at first, he looked so much the vagrant." "And you know, of course, Kennedy, that he had no shirt on under that coat, don't you ?" rejoined Latrobe, rising from his seat as he spoke and joining St.George at the window. He came to see me next day and wanted me to let him know whether he had been successful. He said if the committee only knew how much the prize would mean to him they would stretch a point in his favor. |