And yet, after all, Maggie's dreams, aside from the peculiar twist
life had given them, were fundamentally just the ordinary dreams of
youth: of willful confident youth, to whom but a small part of the
world has yet been opened, who in fact does not yet half know its own
nature.
CHAPTER XV
No prison could have been more agreeable--that is, no prison from
which Maggie was omitted--than this in which Larry was now confined.
He had the run of the apartment; Dick Sherwood outfitted him liberally
with clothing from his superabundance of the best; Judkins and the
other servants treated him as the member of the family which they had
been informed he was; the lively Dick, with his puppy-like
friendliness, asked never an uncomfortable question, and placed Larry
almost on the footing of a chum; and the whimsically smiling Miss
Sherwood treated Larry exactly as she might have treated any well-bred
gentleman and in every detail made good on her promise to give him a
chance. In fact, in all his life Larry had never lived so well.
As for Miss Sherwood's aunt, a sister of Miss Sherwood's mother and a
figure of pale, absent-minded dignity, she kept very much to her own
sitting-room. She was a recent convert to the younger English
novelists, and was forced to her seclusion by the amazing fecundity
with which they kept repopulating her reading-table.
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