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He did not speak of Henry’s nervousness again, but it troubled him none the less. He himself was so fearless, so careless of danger, so eager for adventure that he could not understand his son’s shrinking from peril.
“I used to think,” he said to himself one day, “that boys took their physique from their mothers an’ their brains from their fathers, but it doesn’t seem to have worked out like that with Henry. He doesn’t seem to have got anything from me.... It’s a rum business, whatever way you look at it.”