Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


Lucky Richard died the same month Young Dick emerged from grammar
school. Young Dick was thirteen years old, with twenty million
dollars, and without a relative in the world to trouble him. He was
the master of a palace of servants, a steam yacht, stables, and, as
well, of a summer palace down the Peninsula in the nabob colony at
Menlo. One thing, only, was he burdened with: guardians.


On a summer afternoon, in the big library, he attended the first
session of his board of guardians. There were three of them, all
elderly, and successful, all legal, all business comrades of his
father. Dick's impression, as they explained things to him, was that,
although they meant well, he had no contacts with them. In his
judgment, their boyhood was too far behind them. Besides that, it was
patent that him, the particular boy they were so much concerned with,
they did not understand at all. Furthermore, in his own sure way he
decided that he was the one person in the world fitted to know what
was best for himself.

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