The Man in Possession — page 240: what you’re looking at

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THE MAN IN POSSESSION. 235 felt the pain—it doesn’t console you a bit for having to undergo a similar operation. You've the dread— and the—the inconvenience, to bear for yourself.” ‘* That's so,” agreed Colonel Lawrence. An odd — shade came into his eyes. He looked at the young man with sympathy as well as pity. ‘But it’s better to get over it young,” he resumed. ‘‘It allows room for ambition or a career. You will have a career.” Tom shook his head. , ‘‘Qh, yes, you will,” went on the elder man. ‘You can’t help yourself. You're not formed to sit down and fold your hands while the battle goes on around you. And such a battle as it is here—in this grim Londom If you've thought of it at all as you say—if your sympathies are with the class who toil for others’ pleasures, you must feel drawn to do something—be it ever so litthe—in your time—in your way. Take my word for it, there’s more satisfaction in work—hard, well-meant, unselfish work—than in the achievement of personal ambition or personal happiness. I've laid by a fairly big deposit in the Bank of Experience in my time and I am able to speak with authority. If you’ve wealth, lay it out to the advantage of others. Ifyou look upon it as a trust, you are its master—if you waste or abuse it, you become its slave—and a very pitiful one too.” , ‘‘But,” said the young man, ‘‘it isn’t always easy to decide what is for the advantage of others.” ‘“‘T think it wouldn’t be difficult for any one who ECOMNCE OOO SS) (SO