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Chapter 10 Demi Settles
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'Mother, can I have a little serious conversation with you?' askedDemi one evening, as they sat together enjoying the first fire of theseason, while Daisy wrote letters upstairs and Josie was studying inthe little library close by.
'Certainly, dear. No bad news, I hope?' and Mrs Meg looked up fromher sewing with a mixture of pleasure and anxiety on her motherlyface; for she dearly loved a good talk with her son, and knew that healways had something worth telling.
'It will be good news for you, I think,' answered Demi, smiling as hethrew away his paper and went to sit beside her on the little sofawhich just held two.
'Let me hear it, then, at once.'
'I know you don't like the reporting, and will be glad to hear that Ihave given it up.'
'I am very glad! It is too uncertain a business, and there is noprospect of getting on for a long time. I want you settled in somegood place where you can stay, and in time make money. I wish youliked a profession; but as you don't, any clean, well-establishedbusiness will do.'
'What do you say to a railroad office?'
'I don't like it. A noisy, hurried kind of place, I know, with allsorts of rough men about. I hope it isn't that, dear?'
'No; you'll get round-shouldered writing at a tall desk; and theysay, once a book-keeper always a book-keeper.'
'How does a travelling agent suit your views?'
'Not at all; with all those dreadful accidents, and the exposure andbad food as you go from place to place, you are sure to get killed orlose your health.'
'I could be private secretary to a literary man; but the salary issmall, and may end any time.'
'That would be better, and more what I want. It isn't that I objectto honest work of any kind; but I don't want my son to spend his bestyears grubbing for a little money in a dark office, or be knockedabout in a rough-and-tumble scramble3 to get on. I want to see you insome business where your tastes and talents can be developed and madeuseful; where you can go on rising, and in time put in your littlefortune and be a partner; so that your years of apprenticeship
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4 apprenticeship | |
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