As The Hour Was One Of
Those Allocated By My Informant In The Distribution Of The Day To
Private Study, I Could Not But Take The Present Occupation Of The
Embryo Warrior As An Indication That The Amount Of Labor Required
Might Be Occasionally Too Much Even For An American Youth.
"The
heat makes one so uncommonly drowsy," said the young man.
I was
not the least surprised at the exclamation. The air of the
apartment had been warmed up to such a pitch by the hot-pipe
apparatus of the building that prolonged life to me would, I should
have thought, be out of the question in such an atmosphere. "Do
you always have it as hot as this?" I asked. The young man swore
that it was so, and with considerable energy expressed his opinion
that all his health, and spirits, and vitality were being baked out
of him. He seemed to have a strong opinion on the matter, for
which I respected him; but it had never occurred to him, and did
not then occur to him, that anything could be done to moderate that
deathly flow of hot air which came up to him from the neighboring
infernal regions. He was pale in the face, and all the lads there
were pale. American lads and lasses are all pale. Men at thirty
and women at twenty-five have had all semblance of youth baked out
of them. Infants even are not rosy, and the only shades known on
the cheeks of children are those composed of brown, yellow, and
white.
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