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Updated: May 19, 2025
And it struck me that a girl who'd done what she had wa'n't any quitter. Elisha puts on such a hard, cold sneer too; and comin' from this wise, foxy old near-plute who'd been playin' lead pipe cinches all his life, I expect, and never lettin' go of a nickel until he had a dime's worth of goods in his fist well, it got to me, all right.
Seems to me I ought to be mistered to-day. Someone ought to do it, anyway." "Why to-day any more than yesterday?" asks Vee. I waits until the dinin'-room steward has faded, and then I remarks haughty: "Maybe it ain't come to you that I'm a near-plute now." "Pooh!" says Vee. "You're not a bit richer than I am." "Boy, page the auditin' committee!" says I. "How strong do you tally up?"
Pepper, and I guess it's up to me to frisk another job. You don't know where they want a near-plute as temp'rary office boy, do you? It's a case of "comin' up, up" with me. Sure as ever! Ain't I got stock in a gold mine? And now I'm in with the Corrugated Trust. Why, say, two moves more and I'll be first vice-president. There's only his door, and the general manager's, and then me.
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