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A Traveler from Altruria - Romance (Paperback)
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A Traveler from Altruria - Romance (Paperback)
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I confess that with all my curiosity to meet an Altrurian, I was in
no hospitable mood toward the traveler when he finally presented
himself, pursuant to the letter of advice sent me by the friend who
introduced him. It would be easy enough to take care of him in the
hotel; I had merely to engage a room for him, and have the clerk
tell him his money was not good if he tried to pay for anything.
But I had swung fairly into my story; its people were about me all
the time; I dwelt amid its events and places, and I did not see how
I could welcome my guest among them, or abandon them for him.
Still, when he actually arrived, and I took his hand as he stepped
from the train, I found it less difficult to say that I was glad to
see him than I expected. In fact, I was glad, for I could not look
upon his face without feeling a glow of kindness for him. I had not
the least trouble in identifying him, for he was so unlike all the
Americans who dismounted from the train with him, and who all
looked hot, worried, and anxious. He was a man no longer young, but
in what we call the heyday of life, when our own people are so
absorbed in making provision for the future that they may be said
not to live in the present at all.
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