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 to be lawyers, and in order to do that we must have an education."

"Well?"

"And though we may at this rate get our "dips" at the end, we aren't getting what we should out of our college course. But I don't refer to that so much. It's what we do, not what we don't, that I'm talking about. You and I are going to be lawyers, and we've got to be more or less honest when we become lawyers, merely from a business standpoint, you know. Playing poker and spending a day or two every week at the races are not the proper training for that."

"For Heaven's sake. Red"

"Get serious. Runt; get serious. I mean all this. I've been doing a lot of thinking. We are getting older now. Life is getting to mean something. We've got to take a brace, you and I. It's getting blamed tiresome to me, anyway, to be pointed out on the campus as 'Lucky Reddy Armstrong.' I want to be known as something serious. I want to be respected as well as liked. You do too."