His Early Struggles 



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lady never forgot the constancy which he had 

 shown to her by lavishing it on other things. 

 Years later, she seems to have sent him a com- 

 plimentary cake on his birthday. Like the stupid 

 male he still was, Brown took this to mean, if not 

 a change of heart, at least a tinge of regret, and 

 he makes a fatuous entry in his diary, which 

 shows that he was still living in the Land of 

 Might-Have-Been. 



