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The shock of the telegram the pause it evolved had given Truedale time to catch the meaning of White's attitude; now that he realized it, he knew he must lay certain facts open he could not wait until his return. Presently Jim spoke from outside the door. "I ain't settin' up for no critic. I ain't by nater a weigher or trimmer and I don't care a durn for what ain't my business.
The result was that a commission for a small post in the Boston Custom House came, soon after, to the young author. On going down from Salem to inquire further about it, he received another and a better appointment as weigher and gauger, with a salary, I think, of twelve hundred a year.
In 1838 George Bancroft was Collector of the Port of Boston, and, having been deeply impressed with the genius displayed in the first volume of "Twice-Told Tales," sought out Hawthorne and offered him a place in the Boston Custom-House as weigher and gauger. Hawthorne accepted the position, and at once entered upon his duties.
"Patience, Nicolas Nerli," returned the Weigher of Souls, "patience! we are not done yet. There is something left." So saying, the Blessed St. Michael took the loaves of black bread the rich man had tossed the night before to the poor beggars. He laid them in the scale containing the good works, which instantly fell, while the other rose, and the two scales remained level.
His Uncle Seneca had allowed him to act as assistant weigher at the sugar-docks in Southwark, where three-hundred-pound bags were weighed into the government bonded warehouses under the eyes of United States inspectors. In certain emergencies he was called to assist his father, and was paid for it. He even made an arrangement with Mr.
Alas, that the rosy dawn came too early to me: she glowed me awake, the jealous one! Jealous is she always of the glows of my morning-dream. Measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nut-crackers: thus did my dream find the world:
But I do not see how it can stand for a moment against my defense. The other person who is said to have acted as messenger is still in office, a weigher and gauger, at a salary of $1500 per annum.
He hated to talk about atheists, and about how God had fashioned so beautiful a world. It might be so, but the world, on such a night, was enough in itself. Dr. Franchi's keen, gentle eyes, the eyes of a shrewd weigher of men, observed him and his distastes. "An æsthete," he judged. "God has given him intuition rather than reason. And not very much even of that.
Just before entering the Collector's office, he noticed a man leaving it who wore a very dejected air; and, connecting this with the change in his own appointment, he imagined this person to be the just-ejected weigher. Speaking of this afterward, he said: "I don't believe in rotation in office. It is not good for the human being."
This money is very weighty, as forty byzas make a porters burden. As in receiving, so in paying money, a public weigher of money must be employed. The merchandises exported from Pegu are gold, silver, rubies, sapphires, spinels, great quantities of benzoin, long-pepper, lead, lac, rice, wine, and some sugar.
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