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"Well," he de his hands upon the

arms of his chair, "what do you think of it?"

For the life of ain

There was, in the first place, a delicious irony in the

fact that I should learn through hirandfather's

wishes with respect to rown up in the same town in Vermont; we had

attended the same preparatory school, but there had

been froonism between us

He had always succeeded where I had failed, which is to

say, I must admit, that he had succeeded pretty frequently

When I refused to settle down toof the world first,

Pickering gave himself seriously to the law, and there

was, I knew fro, no manner of chance

that he would fail

I am not more or less than human, and I remembered

with joy that once I had thrashed hi a smaller boy; but our

score from school-days was not without tallies on his

side He was easily the better scholar-I grant him

that; and he was shrewd and plausible You never