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So the way had opened before Henry Wallingford, and he was on the
road to a successful manhood. At the time of his introduction to the
reader, he was in his twenty-third year. On attaining his majority,
he had become so indispensable to Judge Bigelow, who had the largest
practice in the county, that no course was left for him but to offer
the young man a share in his business. It was accepted; and the name
of Henry Wallingford was thenceforth displayed in gilt letters, in
the office window of his preceptor.
From that time, his mind never rested with anything like care or
anxiety on the future. His daily life consisted in an almost
absorbed devotion to his professional duties, which grew steadily on
his hands. His affection was in them, and so the balance of his mind
was fully sustained. Ah, if we could all thus rest, without anxiety,
on the right performance of our allotted work! If we would be
content to wait patiently for that success which comes as the
orderly result of well-doing in our business, trades, or
professions, what a different adjustment would there be in our
social condition and relations! There would not be all around us so
many eager, care-worn faces--so many heads bowed with anxious
thought--so many shoulders bent with burdens, destined, sooner or
later, to prove too great for the strength which now sustains them.
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