And even she often had her young days and her
young spots. It would doubtless be clamorous; yet clamor, understood and
prepared for, might be met with composure.
6
_COPE DINES--AND TELLS ABOUT IT_
Cope pushed away the last of the themes and put the cork back in the red-
ink bottle. Here was a witless girl who seemed to think that Herrick and
Cowper were contemporaries. The last sense to develop in the Western void
was apparently the sense of chronology--unless, indeed, it were a sense for
the shades of difference which served to distinguish between one age and
another and provided the raw material that made chronology a matter of
consequence at all.
"If there were only one more," muttered Cope, looking at the pile of sheets
under the gas-globe, "I should probably learn that Chaucer derived from
Beaumont and Fletcher."
He reached up and jerked the gas-jet to a different angle. The flame lit,
through its nicked, pale-pink globe, a bedroom cramped in size and meagre
in furnishings: a narrow bed, dressed to look like a lounge; two stiff-
backed oak chairs, not lately varnished; a bookshelf overhead, with some
dozen of the more indispensable aids to our tongue's literature.
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