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`` I think I shall play it that way . '' `` It would n't do , sir , '' Mr. Johnson replied in a tone of keen pain . `` You must understand that when your father started this business it was originally a little fourteen-foot-front place , one story high . He got down here at six o'clock every morning and swept out . As he got along a little further he found that he could trust somebody else with that job -- _ but he always knew how to sweep _ . It took him a lifetime to simmer down his business to just ` yes ' and ` no . ' '' `` I see , '' mused Bobby ; `` and I 'm expected to take that man 's place !