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The Master of Silence (Hardcover)
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The Master of Silence (Hardcover)
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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Near the end of my fourteenth year I
was apprenticed to Valentine, King & Co., cotton importers,
Liverpool, as a "pair of legs." My father had died suddenly,
leaving me and his property in the possession of my stepmother and
my guardian. It was in deference to their urgent advice that I left
my home in London (with little reluctance, since my life there had
never been happy) to study the art of money-making. On arriving at
the scene of my expected triumphs I was assigned to the somewhat
humble position of errand boy. In common with other boys who
performed a like service for the firm I was known as "a pair of
legs." Lodgings of a rather modest character had been secured for
me in the western outskirts of the city near the banks of the
Mersey. I was slow to make friends, and my evenings were spent in
the perusal of some story books, which I had brought with me from
London. One night, not long after the beginning of my new life in
Liverpool, I was lying in bed listening to the wind and rain
beating over the housetops and driving against the windows, when
suddenly there came a loud rap at my door.
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