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He had been in the trade a long time, and, I may say, understood it. Our general routine was this: Pompey, having rolled himself well in the mud, sat upon end at the shop door, until he observed a dandy approaching in bright boots. He then proceeded to meet him, and gave the Wellingtons a rub or two with his wool. Then the dandy swore very much, and looked about for a boot-black.
"Excuse my not offering it before." "No, thank you," said Fosdick. "Don't smoke, eh? Won't you have one, Hunter?" "No, thank you. Fosdick is my guardian, and he don't allow it." "So you're a good boy. Well, I wish you a pleasant evening," and Clifton sauntered out to find some other companion. "He wouldn't believe I'd been a boot-black," said Dick, "even after I told him.
I would, in their place." "You're very hard upon the poor boy!" said Mrs. Crawford. "I thought you were his friend." "So I am; but he's acted foolishly for all that. He should have known better." "I ought to be worth six dollars, if your boot-black is worth ten," responded Roswell. "He isn't worth ten." "Why do you pay him that, then?" "It's Mr.
Frank Whitney, for it was he, turned in some surprise and looked at Dick, but did not at first recognize in the neat, well-dressed boy of fifteen the ragged boot-black he had encountered a year before. "I don't think I remember you," he said, surveying Dick with a puzzled expression. "Perhaps you'd remember me better if I had on my Washington coat and Napoleon pants," said our hero, with a smile.
He could not believe in his good luck any more easily than the apple-woman of ancient lineage could believe in hers; he walked about like a boot-black in a dream; he stared at his young benefactor and felt as if he might wake up at any moment. He scarcely seemed to realize anything until Cedric put out his hand to shake hands with him before going away.
"I ought to have stayed in the country." Even a small sum of money imparts to its possessor a feeling of independence, but one who is quite penniless feels helpless and apprehensive. Frank was unable even to purchase an apple from the snuffy old apple-woman who presided over the stand near by. "What am I going to do?" he asked himself, soberly. "What has become of your uncle?" asked a boot-black.
Pa looked at me as if I was a total stranger, and told the porter if that freckled faced boot-black belonged around the house he had better be fired out of the ball room, and the girl said 'the disgustin' thing! and just before they fired me I told Pa he had better look out or he would sweat through his liver pad. "I went to bed and Pa staid up till the lights were put out.
"But I don't want to fight, or have any trouble, Captain Fishley," I proceeded, more gently, for I had warmed up considerably as I recited the history of my wrongs. "If Ham wants me to black his boots, and will ask me civilly to do so, I will do it, though that's not my work, and my brother never meant that I should be anybody's boot-black."
How long has he been in the service of his present employer?" "Only a week or two." "Is this his first place?" "Yes, sir." "It may be that he is some relative of his employer." "That isn't very likely," said Roswell, his lip curling. "He used to be a boot-black about the streets." "Indeed!" said Mr. Turner, keenly. "I think you said he was a friend of yours."
When a gentleman was not a gentleman, this was the form of expression in "the hall," the Lord only knew what would happen. And this one, who had, for all one knew, been born in a workhouse, and had been a boot-black kicked about in American streets, they did not know Tembarom, and nearly starved to death, and found at last in a low lodging-house, what could he know about decent living?
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