Immortal Youth

"[...]and the massive calm of a mastiff, for he had no such arsenal of repartee as this young gentleman from the household of a Harvard profess∨ but once in a while he would land a retort so neat as to set Alexander spinning. It did not take the Cambridge youth long to discover the use Fritz made of his talent for silence and it was his delight to give him away in his game of holding his tongue the better to use his eyes,-as Alexander said: "the wise old Bruin!"   In...
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"[...]and the massive calm of a mastiff, for he had no such arsenal of repartee as this young gentleman from the household of a Harvard profess∨ but once in a while he would land a retort so neat as to set Alexander spinning. It did not take the Cambridge youth long to discover the use Fritz made of his talent for silence and it was his delight to give him away in his game of holding his tongue the better to use his eyes,-as Alexander said: "the wise old Bruin!"   In Massachusetts the anniversary of the battle of Lexington, April 19, is a holiday. It was 1913. In the parlor of an inn whose windows look northward across the snug haven of Rockport to the surf-scoured ledges of Pigeon Cove I was seated at a piano, back to the door, painfully dissecting a score of Tristan.[...]".