years

“Oh, Shere Khan, never was a blacker hunting than that frog-hunt of thine ten years ago!”

Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.

He was twenty-two years old; he considered architecture to be truly an art; and he honestly believed—though he would not have dared to admit it in New York—that the Flatiron Building was inferior in design to the great cathedral in Milan.

“Twenty years is a long time, but not long enough to change a man’s nose from a Roman to a pug.”