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Guess he don't know his boot-black patronizes the same establishment." His supper over, Dick went up to the desk, and, presenting his check, tendered in payment his five-dollar bill, as if it were one of a large number which he possessed. Receiving back his change he went out into the street. Two questions now arose: How should he spend the evening, and where should he pass the night?
Gerald Stanbury was to make in person as to the character and position of her betrothed. "For a Prussian nobleman may be a Prussian boot-black for aught I know," he observed, "and without derogation to his dignity, no doubt, in that land of pipes and fiddlers.
"A very good name. 'What's in a name? as Shakespeare says." As the oddly assorted pair crossed the street, and walked down Nassau street, they attracted the attention of some of the Arabs who were lounging about Printing-House square. "I say, country, is that your long-lost uncle?" asked a boot-black. "No, it isn't," answered Frank, shortly. Though he was willing to avail himself of Mr.
He was not an educated boot-black, and he would have found it difficult to tell what he felt just then if he had tried; perhaps that was why he didn't try, and only winked his eyes and swallowed a lump in his throat. "I wish ye wasn't goin' away," he said in a husky voice. Then he winked his eyes again. Then he looked at Mr. Havisham, and touched his cap.
"He thinks I'm best fitted to adorn the office of a boot-black. Maybe he'd appoint me his private boot-black; but I'm afraid I shouldn't be able to retire on a fortune till I was two or three hundred, if I accepted the situation." "What shall we wear to the party, Dick?" "We've got good suits of clothes. We can carry them to a tailor's and have them pressed, and they will look well enough.
"It's just such fellows as you he gets hold of," continued the boot-black. "Didn't he make you treat?" "I may as well confess it," thought Frank. "This boy may help me with advice." "Yes," he said aloud. "I hadn't but twenty-five cents, and he made me spend it all. I haven't a cent left." "Whew!" ejaculated the other boy. "You're beginnin' business on a small capital." "That's so," said Frank.
"Do you propose to move to Fifth Avenoo?" "Not just at present, but to some more agreeable neighborhood than this. We'll wait till you get a situation, and then we can decide." A few days later, as Dick was looking about for customers in the neighborhood of the Park, his attention was drawn to a fellow boot-black, a boy about a year younger than himself, who appeared to have been crying.
While Dick's night preceding the trial was an anxious one, Gilbert and Roswell Crawford passed a pleasant evening, and slept soundly. "Do you think Mr. Rockwell would be willing to give me the same wages he has paid to the boot-black?" he inquired with interest. "Perhaps he won't take you at all." "I think he ought to pay some attention to your recommendation," said Mrs. Crawford.
Had Dick been at all like him he would have shunned all his former acquaintances, and taken every precaution against having it discovered that he had ever occupied a similar position. But Dick was above such meanness. He could see that Tom, for instance, was far superior in all that constituted manliness to Roswell Crawford, and, boot-black though he was, he prepared to recognize him as a friend.
To succeed in his profession, humble as it is, a boot-black must depend upon the same qualities which gain success in higher walks in life. It was easy to see that Johnny, unless very much favored by circumstances, would never rise much above his present level. For Dick, we cannot help hoping much better things. Dick now began to look about for a position in a store or counting-room.
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