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There was something suppressed in this a mean evasion for he could not easily have told Mr. Edgcrton, without a blush, that, instead of the mercantile establishment, he would have made me a bricklayer's hodman. But this, it seems, Edgerton had found out for himself. His reply, however, was calculated to soothe the jealous apprehensions of Mr. Clifford.
He dreaded lest Mr. Edgerton knew all. "You are probably aware, Mr. Edgcrton," he replied with equal hesitancy and haste "you have heard that Edward Clifford is an orphan that he has nothing, and it was therefore necessary that he should learn to employ himself; though it was against my wish, sir, that he went into a mercantile house."
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