Rossiter W. Raymond 



ciations and reciprocities of the past, 

 and make the intervening separation 

 seem not to have been at all. How- 

 ever one might have been offended 

 by his neglect to answer letters, or let 

 himself be heard from in any way, 

 five minutes of his presence was 

 enough to show that the old friend, 

 unchanged, had come to see the old 

 friend, expecting an unchanged wel- 

 come. And what he expected, he 

 received. I never heard of anybody 

 who refused to forgive Clarence King 

 for neglect of conventional obliga- 

 tions — and I fancy all who knew him 

 had occasion for such forgiveness. 

 My own theory of the matter is, that 

 he was so universally beloved, and 

 responded so easily to congenial com- 

 panions, as to make it impossible for 

 him to keep up, by the usual means 

 of visits, letters, etc., the innumerable 

 ties which he thus formed, without 

 sacrificing all the more serious labors 

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