Then he eyed me again and chuckled still more.

Finally he laid aside all modestly and hugged himself with delight.
"I see that you are a man of _esprit!_" he remarked between spasms.
"I shall be glad to take you into my office.

You may go and introduce yourself to Mr.Spruggins, the chief clerk." Thus it was that I secured my first slender foothold at the bar of New York, and it was not for several years that I discovered that the Toddleham who had written the book on Perpetuities was an entirely different person, belonging to another branch of the family.
Of course I received no compensation for my services at Haight & Foster's, but that was the customary rule with all students.

As a result we were not strictly tied down in our attendance at the office.

I really believe it would have been cheaper for the firm to have paid a small salary to their clerks, for it would then have been in a position to demand much more of them in return.