His Other Wife: A Novel — page 247: what you’re looking at

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“IN DURANCE VILE.’ 239 Yet, even in their most intimate professional associa- tion, young Warren was conscious of a thick vail of reti- cence that curtained his serious inner life from his and every man’s sight. It is very probable that the proud and self-contained reserve of the young clerk, whom he employed as a mere copyist at first, had attracted the notice and approval of Mr. Croft so sensibly as to inspire him with the desire to train this youth of uncommon ability so that he might share with him the arduous duties of a profession that was becoming too active and laborious for Croft’s unaided | efforts. However this might be, it was evident that Gordon Warren owed his rapid elevation to a place of prominence at the bar of to the countenance and patronage of his sometime preceptor, afterward his partner. Go: It seemed a little unfortunate for Mathew Croft that now, in his time of sorest need, the only living creature whom he had attached to his interests by material and ap- parently unselfish services, should be lying locked in the very jaws of death and utterly unconscious of his benefac- tor’s state. Besides his claim upon the personal service of the young lawyer, Croft knew as well as any one that, although so young in his career, there was no other man of his acquaintance to whose oratorical ability he could sooner confide his case than the towering eloquence of the young attorney, whose impassioned appeals and closely-knit arguments had overthrown many of the oldest : Eomicbooks: co