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I was in excellent spirits when I returned home that
night, but the miserable Pinkerton sorrowed for us
both.
"O, Loudon," he said, "I shall never forgive myself.
When I saw you didn't catch on to the idea of the
lecture, I should have given it myself!"
CHAPTER VII


IRONS IN THE FIRE

Opes Strepitumque
THE food of the body differs not so greatly for the
fool or the sage, the elephant or the cock-sparrow; and
similar chemical elements, variously disguised, support
all mortals. A brief study of Pinkerton in his new
setting convinced me of a kindred truth about that
other and mental digestion by which we extract what is
called "fun for our money" out of life. In the same
spirit as a schoolboy deep in Mayne Reid handles a
dummy gun and crawls among imaginary forests, Pinkerton
sped through Kearney Street upon his daily business,
representing to himself a highly-coloured part in
life's performance, and happy for hours if he should
have chanced to brush against a millionaire.


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