“I do admire
Of womankind but one.”
John Gilpin.
“So then, Julius, you are at last a lawyer, out and out?—how did you pass your examination?”
“Just to please myself, uncle, I wasn’t stumped once.”
“Bravo! I am glad to hear it; that was exactly following my example. Before I got through, they tried hard to pose me, but I was an overmatch for them. I would have made a capital lawyer, Julius, had I chosen to practise.”
“What a pity you did not, uncle!”
“Yes, that’s what all my friends say, and that, if I had not been too rich to need it, they would have given me all the business in their power,—every cent’s worth of it. Many of them wish that I had been poorer, that I might have been of greater service to the public.”
“What kind friends you must have, sir!”
“You rascal! I see that you are laughing at me. However, I intend to take you for my raw material, and make of you everything that I have failed to be myself. In the first place, you are to rise to the height of the profession here, in this very city, to make amends for my not having attained the station.”