My Friend Jim (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Not that our big-boned, broad-shouldered Jim, with his hook nose, his quiet grey eyes and that large mouth of his, which, upon the smallest pro vocation, would widen itself into asmile extending from ear to ear, was strictly speaking a handsome man, but perhaps he was near enough being so to justify the above good-natured description, which was uttered by many persons, the Reverend Simeon Turner included. The Reverend Simeon was not ambitious. A somin-law with five thousand a year, a high moral character, and a malleable disposition was good enough for him.

I was then about to be called to the Bar, and was busy reading law, a study which I thought at the time, and think still, to be among the most repulsive that a moderately intelligent human being can bring his mind to bear upon. One afternoon, while I was sitting with somebody's Common Law Procedure, and I forget whose Precedents of Puddings open before me, Jim lounged into my den, and, seating himself side ways upon the table, remarked that he was the happiest fellow in Christendom, or something to that effect.

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