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I have wrought my simple plan / If I give one hour of joy / To the boy who's half a man, / Or the man who's half a boy.
Mr. Hungerton, her father, really was the most tactless person upon earth -- a fluffy, feathery, untidy cockatoo of a man, perfectly good-natured, but absolutely centered upon his own silly self. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am convinced that he really believed in his heart that I came round to the Chestnuts three days a week for the pleasure of his company, and very especially to hear his views upon bimetallism, a subject upon which he was by way of being an authority.