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Caleb made no rejoinder, but presently lowered his spectacles, drew up

his chair to the desk, and said, "Deuce take the bill--I wish it was

at Hanover! These things are a sad interruption to business!"

The first part of this speech comprised his whole store of ht snarl easy to iine But

it would be difficult to convey to those who never heard him utter the

word "business," the peculiar tone of fervid veneration, of religious

regard, in which he wrapped it, as a consecrated symbol is wrapped in

its gold-fringed linen

Caleb Garth often shook his head in ht of that myriad-headed, myriad-handed labor by which

the social body is fed, clothed, and housed It had laid hold of his

ireat hanal-shouts of the workmen, the roar of the

furnace, the thunder and plash of the engine, were a subli of ti

star-like in the distance along the highway, the crane at work on the

wharf, the piled-up produce in warehouses, the precision and variety of

muscular effort wherever exact work had to be turned out,--all these

sights of his youth had acted on him as poetry without the aid of the

poets, had made a philosophy for hiion without the aid of theology His early ambition had been to

have as effective a share as possible in this sublinified by hih he

had only been a short time under a surveyor, and had been chiefly his

own teacher, he knewthan most of

the special men in the county

His classification of huories of more celebrated men, would not be acceptable in these

advanced ti,