I do not know what he will be like, the old man who, forty years from now, will read them; what will be left to him of the thing that I now imagine to be myself. I do not know whether he will be sad or happy, married or single, rich or poor, lonely or befriended. I do not know what injuries the years may do to him, or what recompenses bring him. This only I know: with whatever else he parts he will never part with the books that he has written. And as he sits turning these pages at nightfall before his fire, he will find here once again the vigour, the turmoil, and the confidence of twenty-five. PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY NEILL AND CO., LTD., EDINBURGH. End of Project Gutenberg's Myself when Young, by Alexander Raban (Alec) Waugh