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"Charlie Danforth oh! he's a millionnaire that I refused. He was wild about me, is now, for that matter. He perfectly haunts my rooms, and is always teasing me to ride with him." "Well, Lillie, if I were you, I wouldn't have any thing to do with him." "John, I don't mean to, any more than I can help. I try to keep him off all I can; but one doesn't want to be rude, you know."
"Cornelius!" exclaimed Captain Passford, as a young man of nineteen was shown into the library of the magnificent dwelling of the millionnaire at Bonnydale, on the Hudson. "Cornelius Passford, Uncle Horatio," replied the young man, as the captain rushed to him and extended his hand. "I think there can be no mistake about it; and I should have been no more surprised if Mr.
"Tut! as well say that one ought to be a millionnaire to aspire to a million! Yet I believe those who make millions generally begin with pence." "That belief should be a comfort and encouragement to you, Vivian. And now, good-night; I have much to do." "Good-night, then," said Vivian, and we parted. I made my way to Mr. Trevanion's house and to the study.
While the millionnaire sent his money to England for safekeeping, this man, with his girl-wife and three babies, left them on a mortgaged farm and went away to fight for an idea. It was foolish, but it was sublime for all that. That was three years before, and the young wife, sitting on the well curb on this bright Sabbath harvest morning, was righteously rebellious.
And you, my dear Jack, perhaps half the sum may be of use to you!" "To me! my dear brother," cried Uncle Jack "to me! Why when my new speculation has succeeded, I shall be a millionnaire!" "Have you a new speculation, uncle?" said I, anxiously. "What is it?" "Mum!" said my uncle, putting his finger to his lip, and looking all round the room; "Mum! Mum!" Pisistratus.
I want to eat till I am full, I want to drink my fill! to gormandize! to sleep! to do nothing! I want to have my turn, so I do, come now! before I die! I want to be a bit of a millionnaire!" He took a turn round the hovel, and added: "Like other people." "What do you mean by that?" asked the woman.
The bane and antidote of England is her immense manufacturing power the faculty that enables her to inundate the whole habitable globe with the products of her industry, is at once the source of her prosperity and poverty her millionnaire mill-owners and her impoverished thousands.
The gaping and staring idleness of the theatre was an abomination to the sober earnestness and the spirit of activity which animated the Roman of the olden type; and inasmuch as it was the deepest and noblest conception lying at the root of the Roman commonwealth, that within the circle of Roman burgesses there should be neither master nor slave, neither millionnaire nor beggar, but that above all a like faith and a like culture should characterize all Romans the school and the necessarily exclusive school-culture were far more dangerous still, and were in fact utterly destructive of the sense of equality.
I laughed outright: the humour of it struck me as delicious. Curious, this human nature of ours, isn't it? But how infinitely beguiling! So I sat down beside Mr. Starkweather on the log and crossed my legs. I felt as though I had set foot in a new country. "Would you really advise me," I asked, "to start in to be a millionnaire?" He chuckled: "Well, that's one way of putting it.
And I am not a miserable great landed millionnaire, like that poor dear Castleton, who owes so many duties to society that he can't spend a shilling except in a grand way and purely to benefit the public. So go, my boy, to Trevanion's lawyer, he is mine, too. Clever fellow, sharp as a needle, Mr.
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