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I confess that with all my curiosity to meet an Altrurian, I was in no hospitable mood toward the traveler when he finally presented himself, pursuant to the letter of advice sent me by the friend who introduced him. It would be easy enough to take care of him in the hotel; I had merely to engage a room for him, and have the clerk tell him his money was not good if he tried to pay for anything. But I had swung fairly into my story; its people were about me all the time; I dwelt amid its events and places, and I did not see how I could welcome my guest among them, or abandon them for him. Still, when he actually arrived, and I took his hand as he stepped from the train, I found it less difficult to say that I was glad to see him than I expected. In fact, I was glad, for I could not look upon his face without feeling a glow of kindness for him. I had not the least trouble in identifying him, for he was so unlike all the Americans who dismounted from the train with him, and who all looked hot, worried, and anxious. He was a man no longer young, but in what we call the heyday of life, when our own people are so absorbed in making provision for the future that they may be said not to live in the present at all.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Anthologies (non-poetry)

• Full title: Traveler from Altruria
• Subtitle: Romance
• Author: W D Howells
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• EAN: 9781421845760
• ISBN: 9781421845760
• ID: 08413466
• Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Weight: 308 g
• Dimensions: 139 × 216 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. July 2007

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