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separation--for, it is very near--beyou

about yourself Have you thought of your future?"

"No, for I have been afraid to think of any future"

"But yours cannot be dismissed; indeed, my dear dear Handel, it must not

be dismissed I wish you would enter on it now, as far as a few friendly

words go, with me"

"I will," said I

"In this branch house of ours, Handel, we ht word, so I said, "A

clerk"

"A clerk And I hope it is not at all unlikely that he may expand (as

a clerk of your acquaintance has expanded) into a partner Now,

Handel,--in short,char in the"Now, Handel," as if it were the grave beginning of

a portentous business exordiuiven up that tone,

stretched out his honest hand, and spoken like a schoolboy