Not only that; Georgie knew
that he was a boy set apart. He would think about it for ten or
twenty minutes at a time, and he could not look at himself in a
mirror and remain wholly without emotion. What that emotion was,
he would have been unable to put into words; but it helped him to
understand that there was a certain noble something about him
that other boys did not possess.
Georgie's mother had been the first to discover that Georgie was
a boy set apart. In fact, Georgie did not know it until one day
when he happened to overhear his mother telling two of his aunts
about it. True, he had always understood that he was the best boy
in town and he intended to be a minister when he grew up; but he
had never before comprehended the full extent of his sanctity,
and, from that fraught moment onward, he had an almost theatrical
sense of his set-apartness.
Penrod Schofield and Sam Williams and the other boys of the
neighbourhood all were conscious that there was something
different and spiritual about Georgie, and, though this
consciousness of theirs may have been a little obscure, it was
none the less actual.
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