He knows all about
them; he knows all about everything."
Catherine was silent again; then, "I wish he had found some
employment," she said.
"He has found some employment! It's beautiful news, and he told me
to tell you as soon as you arrived. He has gone into partnership
with a commission merchant. It was all settled, quite suddenly, a
week ago."
This seemed to Catherine indeed beautiful news; it had a fine
prosperous air. "Oh, I'm so glad!" she said; and now, for a moment,
she was disposed to throw herself on Aunt Lavinia's neck.
"It's much better than being under some one; and he has never been
used to that," Mrs. Penniman went on. "He is just as good as his
partner--they are perfectly equal! You see how right he was to wait.
I should like to know what your father can say now! They have got an
office in Duane Street, and little printed cards; he brought me one
to show me. I have got it in my room, and you shall see it to-
morrow. That's what he said to me the last time he was here--'You
see how right I was to wait!' He has got other people under him,
instead of being a subordinate. He could never be a subordinate; I
have often told him I could never think of him in that way."
Catherine assented to this proposition, and was very happy to know
that Morris was his own master; but she was deprived of the
satisfaction of thinking that she might communicate this news in
triumph to her father.
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