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And I'd stake my character and purfessional reputation on it wotever he is, he's no fool!" For once in his life, Briggs was right. He was generally wrong in his estimate of both persons and things but it so happened on this particular occasion that he had formed a perfectly correct judgment. "Could you not drink her gaze like wine?
He says all the purfessional men can't get onto their feet in a business way till they be thirty; an' stone-cuttin', Jim says, is his purfession like as if 't was a lawyer's or a doctor's or a priest's; an' Jim says he loves it.
"No, I merely practise it as an amateur," answered Ned, resuming his work. "Now, that is cur'ous," continued the Yankee; "an' I'm kinder sorry to hear't, for if ye was purfessional I'd give ye an order." Ned almost laughed outright at this remark, but he checked himself as the idea flashed across him that he might perhaps make his pencil useful in present circumstances.
Still, I'm financin' this voyage, as you might say, and someone must keep me informed. F'r instance, if you should be joined by a party as we'll agree to call William Bennetts, I should want to know how William Bennetts was doin', and what his purfessional plans were; and if you could find out anything more about W. B. that he was respectably connected, we'll say why so much the better.
"Yes, I've been stoppin' there a short time with some friends," said Dick. Mrs. Mooney might be excused for a little amazement at finding that a guest from the Astor House was about to become one of her lodgers such transfers not being common. "Did you say you was purfessional?" she asked. "Yes, ma'am," said Dick, politely. "You aint a a " Mrs. Mooney paused, uncertain what conjecture to hazard.
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