4. Gets to college and has a problematical future. Feels lost
without his circle, and always says that school days were
happiest, after all. Goes back to school and makes speeches
about what St. Regis's boys are doing.

5. Hair not slicked.

Amory had decided definitely on Princeton, even though he would be the
only boy entering that year from St. Regis'. Yale had a romance and
glamour from the tales of Minneapolis, and St. Regis' men who had been
"tapped for Skull and Bones," but Princeton drew him most, with its
atmosphere of bright colors and its alluring reputation as the
pleasantest country club in America. Dwarfed by the menacing college
exams, Amory's school days drifted into the past. Years afterward,
when he went back to St. Regis', he seemed to have forgotten the
successes of sixth-form year, and to be able to picture himself only as
the unadjustable boy who had hurried down corridors, jeered at by his
rabid contemporaries mad with common sense.




BOOK ONE

The Romantic Egotist

CHAPTER 2

Spires and Gargoyles