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Alice Adams

CHAPTER XII
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Simon pure! There's never been anybody work for him that didn't respect him more than they did any other man in the world, I guess.

And when you work for him you know he respects you, too.

Right from the start you get the feeling that J.A.puts absolute confidence in you; and that's mighty stimulating: it makes you want to show him he hasn't misplaced it.

There's great big moral values to the way a man like him gets you to feeling about your relations with the business: it ain't all just dollars and cents--not by any means!" He was silent for a time, then returned with increasing enthusiasm to this theme, and Alice was glad to see so much renewal of life in him; he had not spoken with a like cheerful vigour since before his illness.

The visit of his idolized great man had indeed been good for him, putting new spirit into him; and liveliness of the body followed that of the spirit.


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