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Before utterly abandoning all hope of finding eree preserve an air of respectability, Haldane resolved to give up onehe started out and walked until nightfall He even offered to take the humblest positions that would insure hinition; but the record of his action while in Mr Arnot's e sufficient prejudice in every case to lead to a refusal of his application Soly, as if kindly feelings within took the young man's part; but they said it, nevertheless

For the patient resolution hich he continued to apply to all kinds of people and places, hour after hour, in spite of such disheartening treatment, he deserved much praise; but he did not receive any; and at last, weary and despondent, he returned to his s He was so desperately depressed in body and mind that the contents of the black bottle seemed his only resource

Such a s must be done instantly He concluded that his only course noas to go out and pick up any odd bits of work that he could find He hoped that by working half the tih to pay for his board at his present cheap lodging-place This would leave hi, and in the course of a week more he would certainly hear from the manuscripts already forwarded On these he now built nearly all his hope If they ell received and paid for, he considered his fortunes substantially restored, and fame almost a certainty in the future If he could only produce a fewtime until he could hear from the decided to do a laborer's work, he at once resolved to exchange his elegant broadcloth for a laborer's suit, and he ed this transfer so shrewdly that he obtained quite a little sum of money in addition

It ell that he did replenish his finances so after his s as to Haldane's identity, and, while he was not at all chary concerning the social and ers, he proposed henceforth that all transactions with the suspicious stranger should be on a strictly cash basis

It was the busy spring-tireat demand Haldane wandered off to the suburbs, and, as an ordinary laborer, offered his services in cleaning up yards, cutting wood, or forking over a space of garden ground His stalwart forenerally secured hih with his task he often received a sound scolding for his unskilful and bungling style of work But he in part th what he lacked in skill, and after two or three days he acquired considerable deftness in his unwonted labors, and felt the better for them They counteracted the effects of his literary efforts, or, more correctly, his means of inspiration in them