With greatest affection,
THAYER DARCY.
Within a week after the receipt of this letter their little household
fell precipitously to pieces. The immediate cause was the serious and
probably chronic illness of Tom's mother. So they stored the furniture,
gave instructions to sublet and shook hands gloomily in the Pennsylvania
Station. Amory and Tom seemed always to be saying good-by.
Feeling very much alone, Amory yielded to an impulse and set off
southward, intending to join Monsignor in Washington. They missed
connections by two hours, and, deciding to spend a few days with an
ancient, remembered uncle, Amory journeyed up through the luxuriant
fields of Maryland into Ramilly County. But instead of two days his stay
lasted from mid-August nearly through September, for in Maryland he met
Eleanor.
BOOK TWO
The Education of a Personage
CHAPTER 3
Young Irony
For years afterward when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear
the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places
beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the
cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that
nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of
regretting it.
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