This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...days. I'd give you a letter of introduction to Goodman & Co. themselves," added the fireman, jocosely, " if it was not for my rule, never to put my name on anything short of bankcheques. But I'll tell you what I will do for you, my cherub. I'll introduce you into the Fire Department, when the right time comes." Not to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 Excerpt: ...days. I'd give you a letter of introduction to Goodman & Co. themselves," added the fireman, jocosely, " if it was not for my rule, never to put my name on anything short of bankcheques. But I'll tell you what I will do for you, my cherub. I'll introduce you into the Fire Department, when the right time comes." Not to indulge further prolixity over my frequent consultations with these stanch friends, suffice it to say that a few days more made me ready to start forth in quest of employment. The ingenuity and industry of Milly, hindered as they were by much unnecessary and irrelevant advice from her mother, proved equal to the redemption of my well-worn attire into something like proper shape and decency; but it was as a rather tall, slim, poor-looking lad, with luxuriant chestnut curls, colorless face, and downcast eyes, that I took my first step toward independence. Various arbitrary criticisms of my personal appearance were volunteered by the boys of the street; but I felt myself too much above such vagabonds to be seriously wounded by their vulgar freedom of speech! With characteristic quasi-forgetfulness of my last degradation and misery, I began to experience a premonitory gentleman-feeling the very moment I started for the stores, and already saw myself rising to mercantile eminence and opulence, with a quill pen of the largest size sticking out, like a wing, behind my ear. Only in youth do we know that fair, unmercenary Hope which is bright to us in its own light and asks not the hire of favoring circumstance to make it stay. Free in the freedom to be ever with us then; buoyant on the unguided pinions that permit not its sensitive feet to once touch the retarding edges of earth, --it leads the young spirit aimlessly onward in space, ...
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