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 Would have their little joke. It's well enough; Rather a waste of time, but well enough."

I listened as I waited, and heard steps Outside of one who paused and then went on; And, having heard, I might as well have seen The fear in his wife's eyes. He gazed away, As I could see, in helpless thought of her, And said to me: "Well, then, it was like this. Some tales will have a deal of going back In them before they are begun. But this one Begins in the beginning—when he came. I was a boy at school, sixteen years old, And on my way, in all appearances, To mark an even-tempered average Among the major mediocrities Who serve and earn with no especial noise