? ? ? ? "That will be quite a help to me, and I am at present quite ignorant on the subject."
? ? ? ? Rodney looked forward with pleasure to his new employment. He had good executive talent, though thus far he had had no occasion to exercise it. It was with unusual interest that he set about qualifying himself for his new position.
? ? ? ? "Young man," said the veteran landlord, "I think you'll do. I thought at first that Jefferson was foolish to put a young boy in my place, but you've got a head on your shoulders, you have! I guess you'll fill the bill."
? ? ? ? "I hope to do so, Mr. Bailey."
? ? ? ? "Jefferson tells me that you understand Latin and Greek?"
? ? ? ? "I know something of them."
? ? ? ? "Thats what prejudiced me against you. I hired a college boy once as a clerk and he was the worst failure I ever came across. He seemed to have all kinds of sense except common sense. I reckon he was a smart scholar, and he could have made out the bills for the boarders in Latin or Greek if it had been necessary, but he was that soft that any one could cheat him. Things got so mixed up in the department that I had to turn him adrift in a couple of weeks.
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