The optimist

By E. M. DELAFIELD
Humbug. A Study in Education The Heel of Achilles Tension
THE OPTIMIST
BY E. M. DELAFIELD
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922 All rights reserved
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Copyrighted, 1922, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1922.
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Dedicated TO C. A. DAWSON-SCOTT IN AFFECTIONATE ADMIRATION OF THE NOVELIST AND THE WOMAN.
The ship swung slowly away from the side of the wharf. Several people on board then said, “Well, we’re off at last!” to several other people who had only been thinking of saying it.
Owen Quentillian remembered another, longer, sea-voyage taken by himself at an early age. Far more clearly he remembered his arrival at St. Gwenllian.