[The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him by Paul Leicester Ford]@TWC D-Link bookThe Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him CHAPTER XVIII 13/14
She would hardly understand this visit, and it might make her very unhappy." Peter earned fifty dollars by drawing the papers, and at the end of the first month Dennis brought him fifty more. "Trade's been fine, sir, an' Oi want to pay something for what yez did." So Peter left his two hundred and fifty dollars in the bank, having recouped the expenses of the first case out of his new client. He wrote all about it to his mother: "I am afraid you won't approve of what I did entirely, for I know your strong feeling against men who make and sell liquor.
But I somehow have been made to feel in the last few days that more can be done in the world by kindness and help than by frowns and prosecutions.
I had no thought of getting money out of the case, so I am sure I was not influenced by that.
It seemed to me that a man was being unfairly treated, and that too, by laws which are meant for other purposes.
I really tried to think it out, and do what seemed right to me.
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