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THE IDEALIST
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He swung along with a confident step, spurning the wet stones underfoot. He felt the water in his shoes and smiled as if it were a part of the universal malevolence which he despised. He summed up his defiance of adversity (and Miss Morris) in an absurd resolve that he would never buy rubbers—never!