With all the books he's read he has a trade.

And now he's up here to look over the ground; for they say he's comin' here next spring to practice law, and even then he'll be only twenty-one." Surely, this was a land of haste, of easy expedients.

I did not know a great deal about the legal education of an English lawyer; but enough to appreciate the difference between the slow and disciplined training there and the rapid and loose preparation which I heard Mrs.Spurgeon describe with so much pride.

I went into the corner of the room to write a letter to my grandmother..