Miss Civilization by Richard Harding Davis
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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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