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His manner was as cheerful as only that of a man who has struggled hard to repress a fit of violent profanity can be for the meeting at Henry D. Feldman's office had been fraught with many nerve-racking incidents. Imprimis, there had been Feldman's retainer, a generous one, and then had come the discussion of the building-loan agreement with Milton M. Sugarman, attorney for the I. O. M. A.
It must be confessed that through the entire six months of his building operations Morris maintained a stoic calm that effectually hid the storm raging within his breast. All the annoyances incidental to building a house were heaped on Morris, and both he and Rashkin, equally, suffered petty blackmail at the hands of the attorney and the architect for the building-loan mortgagee.
They say he must have a home to offer his bride, as the bird has a nest. Building-loan associations, homes on the instalment plan, appeal to the sentiments they think the young man ought to heed. The young man is often modest, almost always sensitive, and he prefers to bear dispraise rather than to tell the real reason he hesitates.
And when your building-loan stock matures and you do get a little money, you spend it for this this underbred little sewing-machine, and lure me out in it, and lecture me, as if I as if I were to blame. I don't know what has come over you." I knew what had come over him. I knew the secret of the new spirit animating the frail personality of Professor Todd. And Willie knew.
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