"And doesn't he look it!"
Her escorts were still laughing at her when they joined the proprietor
of the universe and his pretty friend, and though both Amberson and
Eugene declined to explain the cause of their mirth, even upon Lucy's
urgent request, the portents of the day were amiable, and the five
made a happy party--that is to say, four of them made a happy audience
for the fifth, and the mood of this fifth was gracious and cheerful.
George took no conspicuous part in either the academic or the social
celebrations of his class; he seemed to regard both sets of exercises
with a tolerant amusement, his own "crowd" "not going in much for
either of those sorts of things," as he explained to Lucy. What his
crowd had gone in for remained ambiguous; some negligent testimony
indicating that, except for an astonishing reliability which they all
seemed to have attained in matters relating to musical comedy, they
had not gone in for anything. Certainly the question one of them put
to Lucy, in response to investigations of hers, seemed to point that
way: "Don't you think," he said, "really, don't you think that being
things is rather better than doing things?"
He said "rahthuh bettuh" for "rather better," and seemed to do it
deliberately, with perfect knowledge of what he was doing.
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