"Well, Dandy," said he, "if your information respecting Fenton prove
correct, reckon upon another hundred, instead of the fifty I mentioned.
I suppose I may go now?" he added, smiling.
Dandy, still maintaining his gravity, waved his hand with an air of
suitable authority, intimating that the other had permission to depart.
On going out, however, he said, "I beg your pardon, sir, but while
you're abroad, I'd take it as a favor if you'd find out the state o'
the funds. Of course, I'll be investin'; and a man may as well do things
with his eyes open--may as well examine both sides o' the candle-box,
you know. You may go, sir."
"Well," thought the stranger to himself, as he literally went on his way
rejoicing toward Birney's office, "no man in this life should ever yield
to despair. Here was I this morning encompassed by doubt and darkness,
and I may almost say by despair itself. Yet see how easily and naturally
the hand of Providence, for it is nothing less, has changed the whole
tenor of my existence.
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