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The next time the members of our little group came together, the manufacturer began at once upon the banker:
"I should think that our friend, the professor, here, would hardly like that notion of yours, that business, as business, has nothing to do with the education of a gentleman. If this is a business man's country, and if the professor has nothing in stock but the sort of education that business has no use for, I should suppose that he would want to go into some other line."
The banker mutely referred the matter to the professor, who said, with that cold grin of his which I hated:
