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Raymount was not a money-lover in any notable sense the men are rare indeed of whom it might be said absolutely they do not love money his delight in having land of his own was almost beyond utterance.
And now Clayton hated the old money-lover who was foisting a husband on his only child merely to chain a Senator to the wheels of the money chariot. Seated alone, in the evening, watching the treasured picture, and waiting for the day of the diva's breakfast, a fierce desire for stern reprisals took possession of Clayton. "I have it!" he murmured. The pathway seemed clear at last.
And also with respect to pleasure, it is unspeakable how advantageous it is, that a man should think he has something which he may call his own; for it is by no means to no purpose, that each person should have an affection for himself, for that is natural, and yet to be a self-lover is justly censured; for we mean by that, not one that simply loves himself, but one that loves himself more than he ought; in like manner we blame a money-lover, and yet both money and self is what all men love.
And so a noted whoremonger is to be chosen before a man who is a money-lover! Let me tell you, Niece, this little becomes so nice a one as you have been always reckoned. Who, think you, does more injustice, a prodigal man or a saving man? The one saves his own money; the other spends other people's. But your favourite is a sinner in grain, and upon record. The devil's in your sex!
"On what shall I reflect?" "On the importance of the step you are taking." "Is it more serious than going to M. Danglars?" "Yes; M. Danglars is a money-lover, and those who love money, you know, think too much of what they risk to be easily induced to fight a duel. The other is, on the contrary, to all appearance a true nobleman; but do you not fear to find him a bully?"
Goin' to be mighty lonesome, too, without the Professor," he added, shaking his head, sorrowfully. Tugg was a money-lover; but I know that he didn't hold the loss of his animals and outfit as anything to be compared to the miserable end of his partner. I liked him for that. I can't say that I enjoyed that canoe trip to the Straits.
"I never thought of such a possibility," said the astonished attorney; "and I don't know that I understand now to whom you refer." "I have learned from various reliable sources," the detective replied, "that Ralph Mainwaring has a younger brother, Harold, who is as much of a money-lover as himself, though too indolent to take the same measures for acquiring it.
Bolton, at half their real value. "That was a good speculation," said the gray-headed money-lover, when his agent informed him of what he had been doing. "First-rate," replied the broker. "The farm is worth every cent of three thousand dollars. Poor Gray! I can't help feeling sorry for him. But it's his luck. He valued his farm at three thousand five hundred dollars.
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