[The Little Colonel’s Chum: Mary Ware by Annie Fellows Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookThe Little Colonel’s Chum: Mary Ware CHAPTER XV 7/25
He is to name the price to-morrow after he has made a careful estimate, so I don't know how much he will offer, but Mrs.Levering says it is sure to be far more than an inexperienced teacher or stenographer could earn in a whole summer. "How I have worried and fretted and fumed because I had no way to make money here! Now besides what I get for my specimens I am to have a chance to earn a little more.
Professor Carnes will be here till cold weather, and since I can give him 'intelligent assistance,' as he calls it, he will have work for me in connection with his notes, copying and indexing them, and gathering new material. "Now you can go back to saving up for your year abroad, and give the family the honour of claiming _one_ member with a career.
Jack is really going back to the office the first of September for a part of every day, at quite a respectable salary considering the length of time he will work.
He's too valuable a man to the company for them to part with.
As for me, I'm _sure_ something else will turn up as soon as my work for Professor Carnes comes to an end.
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