It will be remembered that Mr Murchison, upon
entering the Law Schools, also carried off a valuable
scholarship. We are glad to be able to announce that Mr
Murchison, Junior, will embark upon his profession in
his native town, where he will enter the well-known firm
of Fulke and Warner."
The editor, Mr Horace Williams, had gone to dinner, and
Rawlins was out so Dr Drummond had to leave it with the
press foreman. Mr Williams read it appreciatively on his
return, and sent it down with the following addition:
"This is doing it as well as it can be done. Elgin
congratulates Mr L. Murchison upon having produced these
results, and herself upon having produced Mr L. Murchison."
Chapter III
From the day she stepped into it Mrs Murchison knew that
the Plummer Place was going to be the bane of her existence.
This may have been partly because Mr Murchison had bought
it, since a circumstance welded like that into one's life
is very apt to assume the character of a bane, unless
one's temperament leads one to philosophy, which Mrs
Murchison's didn't. But there were other reasons more
difficult to traverse: it was plainly true that the place
did require a tremendous amount of "looking after," as
such things were measured in Elgin, far more looking
after than the Murchisons could afford to give it.
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