Edmund Blair Leighton The Accolade painting

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former envious rejection, he himself cut the interview short, and readily agreed to the Chancellor's suggestion that they meet no more. In a curious heat then, he had throttled through the Light-House gate with his company -- not in excess of the posted speed-limits -- just as Anastasia and I had happened to taxi past en route to the Library from Dr. Sear's. When shortly afterwards the crowd had gathered before Tower Hall, and he learned their purpose, he'd put his newpersona to the further test I'd witnessed, soothing the demonstrators instead of inciting and clubbing them at once as was his wont. Bray's admonition there in the lobby -- to "be himself, for Founder's sake" -- accounted for his subsequent partial regression: whowas himself? and for Whose sake did he do anything? Confused, he had retired to Main Detention, exchanged the suit for his customary garb, and returned to Great Mall just in time to stop the lynching.
"But why'd you stop it?" I asked him. "If you'd decided my Tutoring was false and Bray's was true. . ."
He shrugged. "Stacey's orders."