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Tommy Traddles

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

           AsTraddlesseemedtoexpectthatIshouldassenttothisasamatterofcourse,Inodded;andhewenton,withthesamesprightlypatienceIcanfindnobetterexpressionasbefore.

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

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