A week after my father died suddenly I understood his fondness for me was safe — nothing could touch it.... I suddenly thought, with amazement, he will always love me now, and I laughed — he was dead, dead!
In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
