EDUADAMS #263 The Education of Henry Adams
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu . public view. What he was at heart, no one could say; least of all himself; but he was probably human, and no worse than some others. Therefore, when he presented to an exceedingly indulgent father and mother his request to begin at a German university the study of the Civil Law -- although neither he nor they knew what the Civil Law was, or any reason for his studying it -- the parents dutifully consented, and walked with him down to the railway-station at Quincy to bid him good-bye, with a smile which he almost thought a tear. Whether the boy deserved such indulgence, or was worth it, he knew no more than they,
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