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I started to tell you about the campus.
I wish you'd come for a little visit and let me walk you about and say: 'That is the library. This is the gas plant, Daddy dear. The Gothic building on your left is the gymnasium, and the Tudor Romanesque beside it is the new infirmary.'
Oh, I'm fine at showing people about.
I've done it all my life at the asylum, and I've been doing it all day here.
I have honestly. And a Man, too!
That's a great experience. I never talked to a man before (except occasional Trustees, and they don't count).
Pardon, Daddy, I don't mean to hurt your feelings when I abuse Trustees.
I don't consider that you really belong among them. You just tumbled on to the Board by chance.
The Trustee, as such, is fat and pompous and benevolent. He pats one on the head and wears a gold watch chain.
That looks like a June bug, but is meant to be a portrait of any Trustee except you.
However— to resume: I have been walking and talking and having tea with a man.
And with a very superior man— with Mr. Jervis Pendleton of the House of Julia; her uncle, in short (in long, perhaps I ought to say; he's as tall as you.)
Being in town on business, he decided to run out to the college and call on his niece.
He's her father's youngest brother, but she doesn't know him very intimately.
It seems he glanced at her when she was a baby, decided he didn't like her, and has never noticed her since.=
Anyway, there he was, sitting in the reception room very proper with his hat and stick and gloves beside him; and Julia and Sallie with seventh-hour recitations that they couldn't cut.
So Julia dashed into my room and begged me to walk him about the campus and then deliver him to her when the seventh hour was over.
I said I would, obligingly but unenthusiastically, because I don't care much for Pendletons.
But he turned out to be a sweet lamb. He's a real human being— not a Pendleton at all.
We had a beautiful time; I've longed for an uncle ever since.
Do you mind pretending you're my uncle? I believe they're superior to grandmothers.
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