Seventeen

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Booth Tarkington. Seventeen

Seventeen

Table of Contents

I

WILLIAM

II

THE UNKNOWN

III

THE PAINFUL AGE

IV

GENESIS AND CLEMATIS

V

SORROWS WITHIN A BOILER

VI

TRUCULENCE

VII

MR. BAXTER'S EVENING CLOTHES

VIII

JANE

IX

LITTLE SISTERS HAVE BIG EARS

X

MR. PARCHER AND LOVE

XI

BEGINNING A TRUE FRIENDSHIP

XII

PROGRESS OF THE SYMPTOMS

XIII

AT HOME TO HIS FRIENDS

XIV

TIME DOES FLY

XV

ROMANCE OF STATISTICS

XVI

THE SHOWER

XVII

JANE'S THEORY

XVIII

THE BIG, FAT LUMMOX

XIX

“I DUNNO WHY IT IS”

XX

SYDNEY CARTON

XXI

MY LITTLE SWEETHEARTS

XXII

FORESHADOWINGS

XXIII

FATHERS FORGET

XXIV

CLOTHES MAKE THE MAN

XXV

YOUTH AND MR. PARCHER

XXVI

MISS BOKE

XXVII

MAROONED

XXVIII

RANNIE KIRSTED

XXIX

“DON'T FORGET!”

XXX

THE BRIDE-TO-BE

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Booth Tarkington

A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William

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And there, at the corner before them, waited Clematis, roguishly lying in a mud-puddle in the gutter. He had run through alleys parallel to their course—and in the face of such demoniac cunning the wretched William despaired of evading his society. Indeed, there was nothing to do but to give up, and so the trio proceeded, with William unable to decide which contaminated him more, Genesis or the loyal Clematis. To his way of thinking, he was part of a dreadful pageant, and he winced pitiably whenever the eye of a respectable passer-by fell upon him. Everybody seemed to stare—nay, to leer! And he felt that the whole world would know his shame by nightfall.

Nobody, he reflected, seeing him in such company, could believe that he belonged to “one of the oldest and best families in town.” Nobody would understand that he was not walking with Genesis for the pleasure of his companionship—until they got the tubs and the wash-boiler, when his social condition must be thought even more degraded. And nobody, he was shudderingly positive, could see that Clematis was not his dog (Clematis kept himself humbly a little in the rear, but how was any observer to know that he belonged to Genesis and not to William?)

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