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"Ahem-m!" piped up the thin voice of the professor of Greek. Will Phelps, however, was in earnest now and his embarrassment was all forgotten. He was expressing his own inward feelings and without any intention or even thought of how the words would sound he was describing his own attitude of mind. He certainly had no thought of how his words would be received.
That was not the thought that was uppermost. But it may serve as an incentive to you." "What is this Wilder doing now?" "Ahem-m!" The professor cleared his throat repeatedly before he spoke. "He is engaged in an occupation that brings him into contact with the very best that has been thought and said, and also into contact with some of the brightest and keenest intellects of our nation."
"He must be an editor or a publisher then." "Not exactly. Not exactly, Mr. Phelps. He is engaged rather in a mercantile way, though with the most scholarly works, I do assure you." "Is he a book agent?" "Ahem-m! Ahem-m! That is an expression I seldom use, Mr. Phelps. It has become a somewhat obnoxious term, though originally it was not so, I fawncy.
"Ahem-m!" repeated the professor shrilly and shifting a trifle uneasily in his seat. "I fawncy that a student always does better work in a subject which he enjoys." "Yes, but doesn't he enjoy what he can do better work in too? Now I don't know how to study Greek, can't seem to make anything out of it.
"Well, Skinner," Cappy Ricks declared, "this is the first time a skipper in my employ ever talked back and it'll be the last. I've had enough of this fellow's impudence, Skinner. He's right at that blast him but he's too much of a sea lawyer; and I won't have any employee of mine telling me how to run my business. Send in a stenographer." When the stenographer entered Cappy Ricks said: "Ahem-m!
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