Kilmeny of the Orchard

another man might like it; There are many lawyers in the world—too many, perhaps—but there are never too many good honest men of business, ready to do clean big things for the betterment of humanity and the upbuilding of their country, to plan great enterprises and carry them through with brain and cour- age, to manage and control, to aim high and strike one’s aim. There, I’m waxing eloquent, so I’d better stop. But ambi- tion, man! Why, I’m full of it—it’s bub- bling in every pore of me. I mean to make the department store of Marshall & Company famous from ocean to ocean. Father started in life as a poor boy from a Nova Scotian farm. He has built up a business that has a provincial reputation. I mean to carry it on. In five years it shall have a maritime reputation, in ten, a Canadian. I want to make the firm of Marshall & Company stand for something big in the commercial interests of Can- ada. Isn’t that as honourable an ambi- 8