Capitolo 79
"Yes, Eben; be me!"
"You find me changed", said Eben, sorrily.
"No, I should recognize her/it wherever."
"I don't intend that. I have sunk very low", and he threw a look
pathetically to the wheelbarrow.
"If you report to Your job, I don't agree with you. It is a
honest business."
"True, but me never the dreamed when I was standing behind over-the-counter in
Boston, and it waited on gentleman to the fashion to which I should ever come
this."
"He seems more ashamed than to push vegetable that of theft,"
thought Herbert, and he was right.
"How does it happen to be in these business Eben?" he asked, with
of the curiosity.
"I have to do him/it or I have to starve. I was deceived out soon of my money after me
come here, and he/she didn't know whether to turn."
Eben didn't explain that him lost his/her money in a house of gambling. Him
you/he/she would have been deceived out of him, but it was his/her his/her own guilt, for
risking himself/herself/itself in the competition with the more old men and more experienced rascals
what him.
"I went for thirty-six hours without food", continued Eben "when me
you fall in with a man that held a vegetable shop, and he offered
assume me. I have been since then with him."
"You is fortunate to find job", said Herbert.
"Fortunate!" Repeated Eben, in a tragic tone. "How many salaries do her
does he/she think that I get?"
"I cannot guess."
"Five dollars for week, and it has to be answered Eben,,
mournfully. "My friends to the fashion in Boston would say what if theirs
could you/he/she see me?"
"I would not mind what they said until you you/he/she is getting a honest
living."
"How does it happen to be here out?" Asked Eben.
Its history was reported in some words.
"You are always in fortune!" Said Eben, enviously. "I desire me to have Your
opportunity. The Mr. Is Melville very rich?"
"He is rich; but I don't know how rich."
"Does he/she think that he would lend me money enough to find to house?"
"I don't know."
"Will he/she ask to him?"
"I will tell him that you made the application, Eben", answered Herbert,