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"I do fear thou'rt be-devilled and moon-struck, master!" "Why so?" "Betimes thou dost smile upon the moon for no reason; scowl upon the earth for no reason; work with thy lips yet speak no word, and therewith do bite thy fingers-ends, clench thy fists and all for no reason. Moreover, thou'rt quick and slow in thy gait, sighing gustily off and on so it is I do sweat for thee." "And wherefore?"
His whole life might have been called a game of cards. He carried a deck forever next his heart. Sometimes he gambled with other vehicles stocks, shares, currency but the cards were still his mainstay, and he was well acquainted with every known or obsolete game. There was no trick, nor fraud, nor waggery which he had not at his fingers-ends.
But nowadays a petty alehouse-keeper, if he gives too much credit, a cheesemonger whose credit grows rotten, or a mechanic that is weary of living by his fingers-ends, makes no more ado, when he finds his circumstances uneasy, but whips into a saddle and thinks to get all things retrieved by the magic of those two formidable words, Stand and Deliver.
Previously these children had often grown to be nine or ten years old without schooling or teaching of any kind, and even now much of the time of the secondary schools is wasted in teaching simple primary subjects, which ought to have been at the boy's fingers-ends before he came to them.
But from the way you allude to him I judge he has the details at his fingers-ends. That's all right. Leave him on the job." "I will and stay myself." Richard's eyes were straight ahead, as the eyes of a man must be whose powerful car is running at high speed along a none too smoothly surfaced portion of state road. Therefore the glances of the two young men could not meet.
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