"To tell you the truth--" this to the
second man in the potato-bug waistcoat, when they were dividing
between them the bottle of "Extra Dry" three-quarters full, that
Parkins had smuggled into the pantry with the empty bottles ("Dead
Men," Breen called them)--" to tell you the truth, Frederick, when
I took 'is 'at and coat hupstairs 'e give me a real start 'e
looked that respectable"
As to Jack, not only his mind but his heart were in a whirl.
Half the night he lay awake wondering what he could do to follow
Peter's advice while preserving his own ideals. He had quite
forgotten that part of the older man's counsel which referred to
the dignity of work, even of that work which might be considered
as menial. If the truth must be told, it was his vanity alone
which had been touched by the suggestion that in him might lay the
possibility of reforming certain conditions around him. He was
willing, even anxious, to begin on Breen & Co., subjecting his
uncle, if need be, to a vigorous overhauling. Nothing he felt
could daunt him in his present militant state, upheld, as he felt
that he was, by the approval of Peter.
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