You must not fancy I am sick, only over-driven
and under the weather. Many of our foremost operators
have gone down: John T. M'Brady skipped to Canada with
a trunkful of boodle; Billy Sandwith, Charlie Downs,
Joe Kaiser, and many others of our leading men in this
city bit the dust. But Big Head Dodd has again
weathered the blizzard, and I think I have fixed things
so that we may be richer than ever before autumn.
"Now I will tell you, my dear, what I propose. You say
you are well advanced with your first statue; start in
manfully and finish it, and if your teacher--I can
never remember how to spell his name--will send me a
certificate that it is up to market standard, you shall
have ten thousand dollars to do what you like with,
either at home or in Paris. I suggest, since you say
the facilities for work are so much greater in that
city, you would do well to buy or build a little home;
and the first thing you know, your dad will be dropping
in for a luncheon. Indeed, I would come now--for I am
beginning to grow old, and I long to see my dear boy,--
but there are still some operations that want watching
and nursing.
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