[Poor and Proud by Oliver Optic]@TWC D-Link bookPoor and Proud CHAPTER XI 7/12
Her mother had told her there was always a right way and a wrong way.
It certainly was not right to enter in the face of a positive prohibition, and at last she decided to return to the office and ask permission to visit the workshop. "Please may I go into the workshop ?" said she, addressing the man who had purchased the candy. "Go in? why not ?" replied he, placing his pen behind his ear, and looking at her with a smile of curiosity. "Why, it says on the door, 'No admittance except on business.'" "So it does.
Well, I declare, you have got an amount of conscience beyond your station.
No one thinks of taking any notice of that sign. Peddlers and apple men go in without a question." "I thought you wouldn't let people go in." "We don't like to have visitors there, for they sometimes do injury, and generally take off the attention of the men from their work.
But you have got so much conscience about the matter, that you shall not only go in, but I will go with you, and introduce you." "Thank you, sir; I won't give you all that trouble.
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