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Your ambition seeks for utterance. You ask, 'What sort of utterance
will suit an ambition such as mine?' To answer this question,
we ask, 'What are your qualities?' Did you think, William, that I
disparaged yours when I recommended the law to you as a profession?"
"No, sir! oh, no! Perhaps you overrated them. I am afraid so--I
think so."
"No, William, unfortunately, you do not think about it. If you
would suffer yourself to think, you would speak a different language."
"I can not think--I am too miserable to think!" exclaimed the youth
in a burst of passion. The old man looked surprised. He gazed with
a serious anxiety into the youth's face, and then addressed him:--
"Where have you been, William, for the last three weeks? In all
that time I have not seen you."
A warm blush suffused the cheeks of the pupil. He did not immediately
answer.
"Ask ME!" exclaimed a voice from behind them, which they both
instantly recognised as that of Ned Hinkley, the cousin of William.
He had approached them, in the earnestness of their interview,
without having disturbed them.


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