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But Tom was clear upon two points — that his uncle Moss’s note must be destroyed; and that Luke’s money must be paid, if in no other way, out of his own and Maggie’s money now in the savings bank. There were subjects, Alessio Cerci Jersey you perceive, on which Tom was much quicker than on the Emily Sonnett Jersey niceties of classical construction, or the relations of a mathematical demonstration.
Chapter V: Tom Applies His Knife to the Oyster
The James Rodriguez Jersey next day, at ten o’clock, Tom was on his way to St. Ogg’s, to see his uncle Deane, who was to come home last night, his aunt had said; and Tom Andre-Pierre Gignac Jersey had made up his mind Jesus Manuel Corona Jersey that his uncle Deane was the right person to ask for advice about getting some employment. He was in a great way of business; he had not the narrow notions of uncle Glegg; and he had risen in the world on a scale of Claudio Bravo Jersey advancement which accorded with Tom’s ambition.
It was a dark, chill, misty morning, likely to end in rain — one of those mornings when even happy people take refuge in their hopes. And Tom was very unhappy; he felt the humiliation as well as the prospective hardships of his lot with all the keenness of a proud nature; and with all his resolute dutifulness toward his father there mingled an irrepressible indignation against him which gave misfortune the less endurable aspect of a wrong. Since these were the consequences of going to law, his father was really blamable, as his aunts and uncles had always said he was; and it was a significant indication of Tom’s character, that though he thought his aunts ought to do something more for his mother, he felt nothing like Maggie’s violent resentment against them for showing no eager tenderness and generosity. There were no impulses in Ron Vlaar Jersey Tom that led him to expect what did not present itself to him as a right to be Jesus Gamez Jersey demanded. Why should people give Aleix Vidal Jersey away their money plentifully to those who had not taken care of their own money? Tom saw some justice in severity; and all the more, because Andre Wisdom Jersey he had confidence in himself that he should never deserve that just severity. It was very hard upon him that he should be put at this disadvantage in life by his father’s want of prudence; but he was not going to complain and to find fault with people because they did not make everything easy for him. He would ask no one to help him, more than to give him work and pay him for it. Poor Tom was not without his hopes to take refuge in under the Axel Tuanzebe Jersey chill damp imprisonment of the December fog, which seemed only like a part of his home Samuel Umtiti Jersey troubles. At sixteen, the mind that has the strongest affinity for fact cannot escape illusion and self-flattery; and Tom, in sketching his future, had no other guide in arranging his facts than the suggestions of his own brave self-reliance. Both Mr. Glegg and Mr. Deane, he knew, had been very poor once; he did not want to save money slowly and retire on a moderate fortune like his uncle Glegg, but he would be like his uncle Deane — get a situation in some great house of business and rise fast. He had scarcely seen anything of his uncle Deane for the last threelinks:
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