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Tommy Traddles

           ForIamaploddingkindoffellow,Copperfield,andhadlearntthewayofdoingsuchthingspithily.Well!Thatputitinmyheadtoentermyselfasalawstudent;andthatranawaywithallthatwasleftofthefiftypounds.Yawlerrecommendedmetooneortwootheroffices,however—Mr.Waterbrook’sforone—andIgotagoodmanyjobs.Iwasfortunateenough,too,tobecomeacquaintedwithapersoninthepublishingway,whowasgettingupanEncyclopaedia,andhesetmetowork;and,indeed’(glancingathistable),‘Iamatworkforhimatthisminute.Iamnotabadcompiler,Copperfield,’saidTraddles,preservingthesameairofcheerfulconfidenceinallhesaid,‘butIhavenoinventionatall;notaparticle.IsupposethereneverwasayoungmanwithlessoriginalitythanIhave.’

           AsTraddlesseemedtoexpectthatIshouldassenttothisasamatterofcourse,Inodded;andhewenton,withthesamesprightlypatience—Icanfindnobetterexpression—asbefore.

           ‘So,bylittleandlittle,andnotlivinghigh,Imanagedtoscrapeupthehundredpoundsatlast,’saidTraddles;‘andthankHeaventhat’spaid—thoughitwas—thoughitcertainlywas,’saidTraddles,wincingagainasifhehadhadanothertoothout,‘apull.IamlivingbythesortofworkIhavementioned,still,andIhope,oneofthesedays,togetconnectedwithsomenewspaper:whichwouldalmostbethemakingofmyfortune.

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