`` Not he . But I do n't really want to -- that 's the point , David , man . You hate a business life so much yourself that you ca n't get it into your blessed noddle that another man might like it . There are many lawyers in the world -- too many , perhaps -- but there are never too many good honest men of business , ready to do clean big things for the betterment of humanity and the upbuilding of their country , to plan great enterprises and carry them through with brain and courage , to manage and control , to aim high and strike one 's aim . There , I 'm waxing eloquent , so I 'd better stop . But ambition , man ! Why , I 'm full of it -- it 's bubbling in every pore of me . I mean to make the department store of Marshall & Company famous from ocean to ocean . Father started in life as a poor boy from a Nova Scotian farm . He has built up a business that has a provincial reputation . I mean to carry it on . In five years it shall have a maritime reputation , in ten , a Canadian . I want to make the firm of Marshall & Company stand for something big in the commercial interests of Canada . Is n't that as honourable an ambition as trying to make black seem white in a court of law , or discovering some new disease with a harrowing name to torment poor creatures who might otherwise die peacefully in blissful ignorance of what ailed them ? '' `` When you begin to make poor jokes it is time to stop arguing with you , '' said David , with a shrug of his fat shoulders . `` Go your own gait and dree your own weird . I 'd as soon expect success in trying to storm the citadel single-handed as in trying to turn you from any course about which you had once made up your mind . Whew , this street takes it out of a fellow ! What could have possessed our ancestors to run a town up the side of a hill ? I 'm not so slim and active as I was on MY graduation day ten years ago .
By the way , what a lot XXXXX co-eds were in your class -- twenty , if I counted right .
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