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Miss Civilization by Richard Harding Davis
page 28 of 41 (68%)

ALICE:
Whom did you ever ask for one?

REDDY:
(to HARRY)
Pass me some more of that pie like mother used to make.

HATCH:
Yes, there are clerks and shopkeepers working behind a counter
twenty-four hours a day, but they don't make ten thousand a year,
and no one ever hears of THEM. There's no FAME in their job.

ALICE:
Fame! Oh, how interesting. Are you--a celebrity?

HATCH:
I'm quite as well known as I care to be. Now, tomorrow, all the
papers will be talking about this. There'll be columns about us
three. No one will know we are the ones they're talking about--

REDDY:
I hope not.

HATCH:
But the men in our profession will know. And they'll say, "That
was a neat job of So-and-so's last night." That's fame. Why,
we've got a reputation from one end of this country to the other.

HARRY:
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