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Not that he was anxious to conceal these slight indications of advancing years , nor did he have a spark of cheap personal vanity about him , but because it was his nature always to put his best foot foremost and keep it there ; because , too , it behooved him in manner , dress and morals , to maintain the standards he had set for himself , he being a Grayson , with the best blood of the State in his veins , and with every table worth dining at open to him from Fourteenth Street to Murray Hill , and beyond . `` Now , it 's all behind me , my dear boy , '' he cried , as we reached the sidewalk and turned our faces up Wall Street toward Broadway . `` Fifteen hours to live my own life ! No care until ten o'clock to-morrow . Lovely life , my dear Major , when you think of it . Ah , old Micawber was right -- income one pound , expense one pound ten shillings ; result , misery : income one pound ten , expense one pound , outcome , happiness ! What a curse this Street is to those who abuse its power for good ; half of them trying to keep out of jail and the other half fighting to keep out of the poor-house !