CHAPTER VIII. MARSE TOM TRAMPLES HIS CHANCE
The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
Consider well the proportions of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise. —Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar.
It is necessary now, to hunt up Roxy.
At the time she was set free and went away chambermaiding, she was thirty-five. She got a berth as second chambermaid on a Cincinnati boat in the New Orleans trade, the Grand Mogul . A couple of trips made her wonted and easy-going at the work, and infatuated her with the stir and adventure and independence of steamboat life. Then she was promoted and became head
