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MARY. How's Ben been doing these two years, father?
OLLIVANT. Hasn't your brother written you?
MARY. Only once—when I left home; he disapproved, too.
OLLIVANT. Had an older brother's feeling of wanting to take care of you, Mary.
MARY. Yes; I know. How's he doing?
OLLIVANT. He's commencing to get on his feet. Takes time and money for anyone to get started these days. He'd have been somewhere if he'd worked in with me as I did with my father. Things should be handed down. Offered him the chance, tried to make him take it, as your mother knows; but that college chum—nice enough fellow, I've heard—turned his head another way.
MARY. Then Ben isn't making any money?
OLLIVANT. [Reluctantly.] Not yet—to speak of.
EMILY. [Quietly.] But he's promised to pay his father back, Mary.
MARY. I see. [Thoughtfully.] College and then more help to get started, because he's a man.
OLLIVANT. [Complacently.] He'll have to support a family some day; I've had to keep that in mind.
"Tradition" by George Middleton
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