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"And when he's grown up," said Redwood, "he'll only be one solitary
Gulliver in a pigmy world."
Mr. Bensington's eye over his gold rim was pregnant.
"Why solitary?" he said, and repeated still more darkly, "Why
solitary?"
"But you don't propose---?"
"I said," said Mr. Bensington, with the self-complacency of a man who
has produced a good significant saying, "Why solitary?"
"
Meaning that one might bring up other children---?"
Meaning nothing beyond my inquiry."
"
Redwood began to walk about the room. "Of course," he said, "one
might--But still! What are we coming to?"
Bensington evidently enjoyed his line of high intellectual detachment.
"
The thing that interests me most, Redwood, of all this, is to think
that his brain at the top of him will also, so far as my reasoning goes,
be five-and-thirty feet or so above our level.... What's the matter?"
Redwood stood at the window and stared at a news placard on a paper-cart
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