“He's one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax.”
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a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anticlimax. His family were enormously wealthy— even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach— but now he’d left Chicago and come East in a fashion that rather took your breath away; for instance, he’d brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest. It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.
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