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The Perfect Life
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The Saturday Evening Post (5 January, 1929)
When he came into the dining room, a little tired, but with his clothes hanging cool and free on him after his shower, the whole school stood up and clapped and cheered until he slunk down into his seat. From one end of the table to the other, people leaned forward and smiled at him.
“Nice work, Lee. Not your fault we didn’t win.”
Basil knew that he had been good. Up to the last whistle he could feel his expended1 energy miraculously2 replacing itself after each surpassing effort. But he couldn’t realize his success all at once, and only little episodes lingered with him, such as when that shaggy Exeter tackle stood up big in the line and said, “Let’s get that quarter! He’s yellow.” Basil shouted back, “Yellow your gra’mother!” and the linesman grinned good-naturedly, knowing it wasn’t true. During that gorgeous hour bodies had no weight or force; Basil lay under piles of them, tossed himself in front of them without feeling the impact, impatient only to be on his feet dominating those two green acres once more. At the end of the first half he got loose for sixty yards and a touchdown, but the whistle had blown and it was not allowed. That was the high point of the game for St. Regis. Outweighed3 ten pounds to the man, they wilted4 down suddenly in the fourth quarter and Exeter put over two touchdowns, glad to win over a school whose membership was only one hundred and thirty-five.
When lunch was over and the school was trooping out of the dining hall, the Exeter coach came over to Basil and said:
“Lee, that was about the best game I’ve ever seen played by a prep-school back, and I’ve seen a lot of them.”
Doctor Bacon beckoned5 to him. He was standing6 with two old St. Regis boys, up from Princeton for the day.
“It was a very exciting game, Basil. We are all very proud of the team and — ah — especially of you.” And, as if this praise had been an indiscretion, he hastened to add: “And of all the others.”
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deferential
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longing
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perfectly
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