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But, in order to succeed well, you must manage to get as good an education as you can. Until you do, you cannot get a position in an office or counting-room, even to run errands." "That's so," said Dick, soberly. "I never thought how awful ignorant I was till now." "That can be remedied with perseverance," said Frank. "A year will do a great deal for you."
In later days he would have a superior fur hung up in his counting-room as other men hang pictures; and this, apparently, for the mere pleasure of feeling, showing, and admiring it. He would pass his hand fondly over it, extolling its charms with an approach to enthusiasm; not, however, forgetting to mention that in Canton it would bring him in five hundred dollars.
Godfrey's counting-room another and a different scene took place at the office of Mr. Stanton. He had just finished reading the morning paper, and, as it slipped from his hand, his thoughts turned, transiently, to the nephew whose persistent failure to claim relationship puzzled him not a little.
In surprise, not unmingled with foreboding, Mr. Gilbert followed his employer and Micky Maguire into the counting-room. "Mr. Gilbert," commenced Mr. Rockwell, "are you acquainted with this boy?" "He blacked my boots on one occasion," said the book-keeper; "I know no more of him except that he is a young vagabond and a thief." "Who hired me to steal?" retorted Micky.
But with a young man who worked single-handed for his wife and a little flock, or one who had an invalid to work for, that heaviest of burdens to the poor, the door seemed to be shut and barred against prosperity, and life became a test of one's power of endurance. The agent went home late that noon from the counting-room.
He began by staring at his friend whenever he entered the counting-room; then, discouraged by his immovable indifference, which he believed to be wilful and premeditated, covering his face like a mask, he adopted the plan of turning away and fumbling among his papers to avoid those false glances, and keeping his eyes fixed on the garden paths or the interlaced wires of the grating when he spoke to him.
Dryfoos has charge of the publishing department he's the counting-room incarnate, the source of power, the fountain of corruption, the element that prevents journalism being the high and holy thing that it would be if there were no money in it." Mr.
This is the day of giving, and giving with a smile makes this gray life we're living seem doubly worth the while. When giving we're forgetting the counting-room and mart, and all the work-day fretting and this improves the heart; forgetting bonds and leases, and every sordid goal this sort of thing increases the stature of the soul!
Every one knows the general appearance of a counting-room.
They pine for adventure and must go to Pike's Peak; had rather die by the hatchet of the Pawnee than sit all day and every day at the counting-room desk. They are made for war, for the sea, for mining, hunting, and clearing, and the joy of eventful living." In Emerson's day there was ample scope for all these varied energies on the frontier.
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