Capitolo 78
Europe is irresistible, removal from the temptations in Boston
it would be mandatory. The boy that Henry has wanted to go to Europe; him
seemed well behaved, when some that one was looking at him; he observed
conventions, when he could not escape them; he was never
quarrelsome, toward a superior; its moralses were evidently good,
and his/her moral principles, if he had of it, it was not known to be
bad. Above all, he was timid and it showed a certain sense of
proper love, when in public sight. What he was to heart anybody,
you/he/she could say; the less than all him; but him probably human beings, and
none worse of some others. Therefore, when he introduced a
very indulgent father and mother his/her application to start to a
German university the study of the civil right--even if neither
him neither they knew what was the civil right or some reason for his
studying him/it--his/her parents deferentially consented, and it walked with
him down to the binary-station to Quincy to offer him/it hi,
with a smile that him he/she almost thought a torn wound.
If the boy deserved such indulgence, or it was worth, him
known anybody more than them, or that a teacher to the university in Harvard;
but if I deign or not, he started his/her bystander or fourth attempt
to education in November, 1858, sailing on the steamboat Persia,
the pride of Captain Judkins and the Line of Cunard; the newest,
greater and faster afloat steamboat. He was not alone. A lot
of his/her companions of university sailed with him, and the world looked
happy enough up to that, in the third day, the world--as far as
pertained to the young one--he/she met him with a heavy storm. He learned
then a lesson that has been nearby him better than some university
teaching ever did--the meaning of a strong wind of November on the
mean-Atlantic--what, for physical and mere uneasiness it passed
persistence. The subject offered him material for anybody but serious
treatment; he could never see the humor of sea-illness; but it
him united with a great variety of other impressions that