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In one of the most famous poems of my first literary protector the Maiden is supposed to arrive with reluctant feet "where the brook and river meet." I cannot say that my own feet were thus hampered. I was contented enough with swimming and riding, with my dogs, and my reading and dreaming, but I longed to travel and see new places, and, short of that, was by no means averse to seeing new people, and especially to being regarded as "grown up."