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But he is not that type of man. By nature he is sober and serious. He always was that." "You can bet he was," Martin proclaimed. " Three dollars a week, an’ four dollars a week, an’ a young boy cookin’ for himself on an oil-burner an’ layin’ up money, workin’ all day an’ studyin’ all night, just workin’ an’ never playin’, never havin’ a good time, an’ never learnin’ how to have a good time-of course his thirty thousand came along too late." His sympathetic imagination was flashing upon his inner sight all the thousands of details of the boy’s existence and of his narrow