But I'm sure I'm not fitted for this." He checked himself from going on to explain that he thought it would mean a waste of all the refinements and elegancies he had been at so much pains to acquire.
"Who's to look after the business when I'm gone ?" asked Hiram.

"Most of what we've got is invested here.

Who's to look after your mother's and sister's interests, not to speak of your own ?" "I'd be willing to devote enough time to it to learn the management," said Arthur, "but I don't care to know all the details." It was proof of Hiram's great love for the boy that he had no impulse of anger at this display of what seemed to him the most priggish ignorance.
"There's only one way to learn," said he quietly.

"That's the way I've marked out for you.

Don't forget--we start up at seven.