Just how I would do it I could never decide: by reading law, by healing the sick, by telling the wonderful tales that swam in my head, - some way. But they should not keep these prizes, I said some, all, I would wrest from them. Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade for the world I longed for, and all its dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine. That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows. Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil. The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card, - refused it peremptorily, with a glance. In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys’ and girls’ heads to buy gorgeous visiting-cards-ten cents a package-and exchange. I was a little thing, away up in the hills of New England, where the dark Housatonic winds between Hoosac and Taghanic to the sea. I remember well when the shadow swept across me. It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first burst upon one, all in a day, as it were.
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