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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1826 Excerpt: ... "How?" exclaimed Mr. Stark, while he rose with great vivacity; "What are you talking of, my dear doctor? What are you thinking about?" "You said, he should never again be admitted either into your house, or your firm." "True, that he never shall; that he never must." "Do you then still cherish such animosity?" "Animosity? I cherish animosity? Well, zounds! if all fathers were to take this method of showing their animosity, it strikes me, that the young gentlemen, their sons, ought to be mightily glad of it!" "Pray, how am I to understand all this?" "Why, I will dissolve all partnership with him and retire: My house shall become his house, and my firm his firm.--Do you understand me now?" "Good God!" exclaimed the doctor joyfully, "now indeed you explain yourself! The text was dark and mysterious; the interpretation is as clear as daylight!--But your poor son! What a fright will he be in!" "Do not begin jesting too early. The conditions still remain behind." "Oh, these will be made by a father, by a noble minded and generous father. I feel perfectly tranquil on that head." "That they are calculated for his good, you will readily imagine.--I have him now, as I before told you, in my power; and what I insist upon is that he shall become more active; that he shall manage the firm, when it becomes his own, with more earnestness and more zeal, than he did under me; be shall not appoint a successor to one of the clerks, who is now on the point of leaving, because he can very well fulfil his duties and his own too, without exactly becoming a slave to his desk; he shall renounce all gay societies and public places of amusement; and make his home more attractive to him, by taking a wife:--but none of your ladies of fashion, no fine dame addicted to dress, nor yet a b
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