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Updated: May 24, 2025
Dear, dear! How pleasant it was to hear somebody else talk on my side of the question. And who was I that I should rebuke Jem for calling our worthy uncle a curmudgeon, and stigmatising the Jew-clerk as a dirty beast? From my affairs we came to talk of Jem's, and I found that even he, poor chap! was not without his troubles.
To turn my own back and shut my eyes for ever on all that the wide seas embrace; my highest goal to be to grow as rich as Uncle Henry or richer, and perhaps as mean or meaner? Should I choose for life a life I hated, and set seals to my choice by drinking silver-top with the Jew-clerk? No, Moses, no! I got up soon after dawn and was in the garden at sunrise the morning that I ran away.
Barefoot, bareheaded, cold, wet, seasick, hard worked and half-rested, would I even now exchange the life I had chosen for the life I had left? for the desk next to the Jew-clerk, for the partnership, to be my uncle's heir, to be mayor, to be member? I asked myself the question as I stood by the steersman, and with every drive of the wheel I answered it "No, Moses! No! No!"
Reading sea-novels had not really taught me much, for there was not one in all that the Jew-clerk lent or sold me which explained ship's language and customs. But the school-master had given me many useful hints, and experience soon taught me how to apply them.
Uncle Henry had no children, and if he took a fancy to me and I pleased him, such a career as the Jew-clerk had sketched for me would probably be mine. This dawned on me by degrees through chance remarks from my father and the more open comments of friends.
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