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Whether Owen had come back, in my opinion, a hero, or an unpardoned and disgraced man, appeared after his first swift glance into my face to affect him very little, if at all; and I had to admit to myself that whatever else he may have failed in, he had arrived at Ffynon with a full knowledge of the duty which he had undertaken.
As a boy, he had always loved engineering, and when in those bright and happy days he and I had discussed his golden future, the _pros_ had generally ended in favour of his becoming an engineer.