[Gutenberg 63158] • Harry Joscelyn · vol. 2 of 3

Excerpt from Harry Joscelyn, Vol. 2 of 3

Highway, a big street full of crowds coming and going, over which he brooded, wondering where he should plunge into the tide of movement, and how take his first step out of the horizons which hitherto had bounded him. He did not say, as his mother might have done, Oh, for the wings of a dove! But he put that profound breath of human impatience into nineteenth century prose, and said to himself, If I had but a steamboat, a yacht, anything to take me out of reach of all of them, where they will never hear of me again i He was not rich enough, however, to hope for a yacht, so that all he could really do was to decide what boat he would go with, and whether he Should turn his steps across the Atlantic, or choose another quarter of the world in which to become another man.

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