What more could one ask who contemplated a career at law?
It was for him to work out his own salvation; and to sweep the stairs each morning.
Edward Franklin accepted his seat in Judge Bradley's office without any reservations, and he paid his daily fee of tenure as had all the other students before him, scorning not the broom.

Indeed, his conscience in small things augured well, for it was little cousin to his conscience in great things.

Ardent, ambitious, and resolute, he fell upon Blackstone, Chitty, and Kent, as though he were asked to carry a redoubt.

He read six, eight, ten hours a day, until his head buzzed, and he forgot what he had read.

Then at it all over again, with teeth set.