Perhaps it was too much to expect that one of his years and mental habit should be hospitable to these newly found truths.
He was not young America.

He had thought too long the other way.

Being of a choleric cast, he would at times be warmed into regrettable outbursts of opinion that were reactionary in the extreme.

Thus when he discussed with Gideon and Harvey D.the latest number of the magazine--containing the fearless exposure of Washington's chicanery--he spoke in terms most slighting of Emmanuel Schilsky.

He meant his words to lap over to Merle Whipple, but as the others were still proud--if in a troubled way--of the boy's new eminence, he did not distinguish him too pointedly.