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'Not suicide though, Colonel Halkett muttered. 'No, that's only incidental. The casual word 'love' led Colonel Halkett to speak to Cecilia of an old love-affair of Seymour Austin's, in discussing the state of his health with her. The lady was the daughter of a famous admiral, handsome, and latterly of light fame. Mr. Austin had nothing to regret in her having married a man richer than himself.
Meditatively he examined his pockets nothing! nothing but the gold piece. Something must be done. There were a number of garments hanging on the wall, among them an overcoat. "I can do without that," he said, with a shiver. Half an hour later, richer by a few pieces of silver, he stood in a telegraph-office, penning a message to Pert. "Letter received," he wrote. "Am well, but no luck.
The arguments of my honourable friend irresistibly lead us to this conclusion, that if, during the last three centuries, the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest, we should have been a far richer, a far more highly civilised people than we now are, and that the labouring classes especially would have been far better off than at present.
Fenton. The constable immediately unlocked the drawer and brought it and its contents to the table. "No money here," said he. "But papers as good as money," announced the doctor. "See! here are deeds and more than one valuable bond. I judge she was a richer woman than any of us knew." Mr. Sutherland, meantime, was looking with an air of disappointment into the now empty drawer.
There are professions, I know, in which manhood and integrity seem to count for nothing. Why offer me money? What reason have you for judging me so mean as to sell my favors? You are like the rest, who can't fancy what a man in my position is. If I wanted to be rich richer than you I could be so in a fortnight. Don't you see that I hold in my hands the honor and lives of fifty people?
He had sent a wonderful portrait of her, as the wife of M. de Nailles, to the Salon a portrait that the richer electors of Grandchaux, who had voted for her husband and who could afford to travel, gazed at with satisfaction, congratulating themselves that they had a deputy who had married so pretty a woman.
"Haven't you your opinion," he asked, "of men who eat their words and put their scruples in their pockets?" "I don't understand," said she, looking wild. "There is, of course, some joke." "There is a joke, indeed," said he; "the joke is that I'm ten times richer than I told you I was." She started back, and fixed him with a glance. "Then all that about your being poor was only humbug?"
The distinctions came gradually or grew up among them, possibly unobserved: the rich becoming richer and the poor poorer, until the nobles held their lands and were selling their sons and daughters as chattels. This condition was hopeless, after all their struggles for nearly a hundred years to re-establish their institutions.
Now she would patronise a middle-class British lodging-house, along with some girl friend richer in talent than in pence, in some seaside town. Now she would fancy the stringent etiquette of a British embassy at foreign court and capital. Honoria was nothing if not various.
For my part, I will endeavor to be more and more simple and clear. Everything which can be of any service to me is of value to me, and the more abundant the useful thing is the richer I am: so far there is no difficulty.
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