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"
But
I
have
not
finished
my
story
,
"
she
said
.
"
He
worked
,
so
father
says
,
as
no
other
office
boy
he
ever
had
.
Mr
.
Butler
was
always
eager
to
work
.
He
never
was
late
,
and
he
was
usually
at
the
office
a
few
minutes
before
his
regular
time
.
And
yet
he
saved
his
time
.
Every
spare
moment
was
devoted
to
study
.
He
studied
book
-
keeping
and
type
-
writing
,
and
he
paid
for
lessons
in
shorthand
by
dictating
at
night
to
a
court
reporter
who
needed
practice
.
He
quickly
became
a
clerk
,
and
he
made
himself
invaluable
.
Father
appreciated
him
and
saw
that
he
was
bound
to
rise
.
It
was
on
father
’
s
suggestion
that
he
went
to
law
college
.
He
became
a
lawyer
,
and
hardly
was
he
back
in
the
office
when
father
took
him
in
as
junior
partner
.
He
is
a
great
man
.
He
refused
the
United
States
Senate
several
times
,
and
father
says
he
could
become
a
justice
of
the
Supreme
Court
any
time
a
vacancy
occurs
,
if
he
wants
to
.
Such
a
life
is
an
inspiration
to
all
of
us
.
It
shows
us
that
a
man
with
will
may
rise
superior
to
his
environment
.
"
"
He
is
a
great
man
,
"
Martin
said
sincerely
.
But
it
seemed
to
him
there
was
something
in
the
recital
that
jarred
upon
his
sense
of
beauty
and
life
.
He
could
not
find
an
adequate
motive
in
Mr
.
Butler
’
s
life
of
pinching
and
privation
.
Had
he
done
it
for
love
of
a
woman
,
or
for
attainment
of
beauty
,
Martin
would
have
understood
.
God
’
s
own
mad
lover
should
do
anything
for
the
kiss
,
but
not
for
thirty
thousand
dollars
a
year
.
He
was
dissatisfied
with
Mr
.
Butler
’
s
career
.
There
was
something
paltry
about
it
,
after
all
.
Thirty
thousand
a
year
was
all
right
,
but
dyspepsia
and
inability
to
be
humanly
happy
robbed
such
princely
income
of
all
its
value
.
Much
of
this
he
strove
to
express
to
Ruth
,
and
shocked
her
and
made
it
clear
that
more
remodelling
was
necessary
.
Hers
was
that
common
insularity
of
mind
that
makes
human
creatures
believe
that
their
color
,
creed
,
and
politics
are
best
and
right
and
that
other
human
creatures
scattered
over
the
world
are
less
fortunately
placed
than
they
.
It
was
the
same
insularity
of
mind
that
made
the
ancient
Jew
thank
God
he
was
not
born
a
woman
,
and
sent
the
modern
missionary
god
-
substituting
to
the
ends
of
the
earth
;
and
it
made
Ruth
desire
to
shape
this
man
from
other
crannies
of
life
into
the
likeness
of
the
men
who
lived
in
her
particular
cranny
of
life
.
Back
from
sea
Martin
Eden
came
,
homing
for
California
with
a
lover
’
s
desire
.
His
store
of
money
exhausted
,
he
had
shipped
before
the
mast
on
the
treasure
-
hunting
schooner
;
and
the
Solomon
Islands
,
after
eight
months
of
failure
to
find
treasure
,
had
witnessed
the
breaking
up
of
the
expedition
.
The
men
had
been
paid
off
in
Australia
,
and
Martin
had
immediately
shipped
on
a
deep
-
water
vessel
for
San
Francisco
.
Not
alone
had
those
eight
months
earned
him
enough
money
to
stay
on
land
for
many
weeks
,
but
they
had
enabled
him
to
do
a
great
deal
of
studying
and
reading
.
His
was
the
student
’
s
mind
,
and
behind
his
ability
to
learn
was
the
indomitability
of
his
nature
and
his
love
for
Ruth
.
The
grammar
he
had
taken
along
he
went
through
again
and
again
until
his
unjaded
brain
had
mastered
it
.
He
noticed
the
bad
grammar
used
by
his
shipmates
,
and
made
a
point
of
mentally
correcting
and
reconstructing
their
crudities
of
speech
.
To
his
great
joy
he
discovered
that
his
ear
was
becoming
sensitive
and
that
he
was
developing
grammatical
nerves
.
A
double
negative
jarred
him
like
a
discord
,
and
often
,
from
lack
of
practice
,
it
was
from
his
own
lips
that
the
jar
came
.
His
tongue
refused
to
learn
new
tricks
in
a
day
.
After
he
had
been
through
the
grammar
repeatedly
,
he
took
up
the
dictionary
and
added
twenty
words
a
day
to
his
vocabulary
.
He
found
that
this
was
no
light
task
,
and
at
wheel
or
lookout
he
steadily
went
over
and
over
his
lengthening
list
of
pronunciations
and
definitions
,
while
he
invariably
memorized
himself
to
sleep
.
"
Never
did
anything
,
"
"
if
I
were
,
"
and
"
those
things
,
"
were
phrases
,
with
many
variations
,
that
he
repeated
under
his
breath
in
order
to
accustom
his
tongue
to
the
language
spoken
by
Ruth
.
"
And
"
and
"
ing
,
"
with
the
"
d
"
and
"
g
"
pronounced
emphatically
,
he
went
over
thousands
of
times
;
and
to
his
surprise
he
noticed
that
he
was
beginning
to
speak
cleaner
and
more
correct
English
than
the
officers
themselves
and
the
gentleman
-
adventurers
in
the
cabin
who
had
financed
the
expedition
.
The
captain
was
a
fishy
-
eyed
Norwegian
who
somehow
had
fallen
into
possession
of
a
complete
Shakespeare
,
which
he
never
read
,
and
Martin
had
washed
his
clothes
for
him
and
in
return
been
permitted
access
to
the
precious
volumes
.
For
a
time
,
so
steeped
was
he
in
the
plays
and
in
the
many
favorite
passages
that
impressed
themselves
almost
without
effort
on
his
brain
,
that
all
the
world
seemed
to
shape
itself
into
forms
of
Elizabethan
tragedy
or
comedy
and
his
very
thoughts
were
in
blank
verse
.
It
trained
his
ear
and
gave
him
a
fine
appreciation
for
noble
English
;
withal
it
introduced
into
his
mind
much
that
was
archaic
and
obsolete
.
