While his
colleagues employed themselves by turns with politics, love, the
theatre, and a little in study, Ramses had withdrawn entirely into
the study of all conceivable suits and claims, into the chicane
subtleties of property, hereditary, land and other business law-
suits, into the memorizing and logical analysis of quashed
decisions. Perfectly of his own will, without in the least needing
the money, he served for a year as a clerk at a notary's for
another as a secretary to a justice of the peace, while all of the
past year, being in the last term, he had conducted in a local
newspaper the reports of the city council and had borne the modest
duty of an assistant to a secretary in the management of a
syndicate of sugar manufacturers. And when this same syndicate
commenced the well-known suit against one of its members, Colonel
Baskakov, who had put up the surplus sugar for sale contrary to
agreement, Ramses from the very beginning guessed beforehand and
very subtly engineered, precisely that decision which the senate
subsequently handed down in this suit.
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