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...last, one morning, I remembered, as I dressed myself, my father's advice; so I took the morning car into Boston, cutting my Latin. I remembered that my father said, "Go to the best lawyer," so I walked around in contemplation of the office, and at last went to the man who has the best room in Sears Block. That was the handsomest building, by long odds, and, thought I, the men who can afford it ought to be the best...
...Look here," interrupted Renardy, "why are you, an old gray haired man, travelling around the country and talking like that? How did you ever get away from your friends...
...tell you what," said Renardy; "there's the man you want to see, over in the corner. He's been asking me who knew enough, around here, to examine heads. He can't find his proper sphere. Sometimes he thinks he was originally intended to be the idol of his country, down in Washington; and then again he tries to convince me that he's just the man for assistant librarian; but I don't think he's got presence and majesty enough for that. Just bring the result of your long study and remarkable ability to bear...
...from them in return? One cannot imagine an organ-grinder to be a scamp. Take the blackest scoundrel and let him go out into the country and grind a barrel-organ for ten days, and at the end of that time, what with the circle of delighted faces constantly around him and the humanizing effect of so much music, he will have recovered all the innocence that used to be his, when, at the age of six, he tagged around after the superior being who carried on his back a box full of pretty tunes...
...Advocate," so I got a heliotype of the Football Nine and went back to the Yard; by this time it was evening, and the trees were covered with jack-o'lanterns, and the Glee Club serenaded the band. I was pained to see how many poor little boys were around, but was told they were the children of the "goodies," and had special privileges...