Sentimental Tommy (Classic Reprint)

Tommy ran away with the author. When we meet a man who interests us, and is perhaps something of an enigma, we may fall awondering what sort of boyhood he had; and so it is with writers who become inquisitive about their own creations. It was Sentimental Tommy the man that I intended to write of here; I had thought him out as carefully as was possible to me; but I suppose I saw the end more clearly than the beginning, for when I sat down to make a start I felt that I could not really know him at one and twenty unless I could picture him at fifteen, and ones character is so fixed at fifteen that I saw I must go farther back for him, and so I journeyed to his childhood. Even then I meant merely to summarize his early days, but I was loth to leave him, or perhaps it was he who was loth to grow up, having a suspicion of what was in store for him. Let us have one more game in the Den, he cried, and I was a tool in his hands. But though we may put off the evil day as long as we can, come it must in the end.
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