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She pampered Kelwyn and flattered him, and She did what She could to make him believe that because he had, after many years as a post-graduate student, be come a postgraduate lecturer, he was something dif ferent from other men, and merited attention from destiny. He was really a very well-read and careful scholar in his department of Historical Sociology, with no thought of applying his science to his own life or conduct. In person, he was not tall, but he was very straight; he carried himself with a sort of unintentional pomp, and walked with short, stifl' steps. He was rather dim behind the spectacles he wore; but he was very pleasant when he spoke, and his mind was not as dry as his voice; when pushed to the wall he was capable of a joke; in fact, he had a good deal of ancestral Yankee humor which he commonly repressed, but which came out in the stress put upon him by his wife's requi sitions in hypothetical cases of principle and practice. He suffered at times from indigestion; but he was in defatigably industrious, and had thought the blond hair thin on his head in places; he wore a reddish mustache.