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Updated: April 30, 2025
Here was I, who but a month ago had a supreme contempt for guile and a lofty confidence in uprightness and downrightness, transformed into a crafty trader with all the villainous tricks of the bargain-maker at my finger-tips. We had befooled Louis into a betrayal of his associates but how much reliance could be placed on that betrayal? Had he incriminated Diable to save himself?
Yet producers often think it no wrong to snatch away from the trader; and they say to the bargain-maker, "You get your money easy." Do they get it easy? Let those who in the quiet field and barn get their living exchange places with those who stand to-day amid the excitements of commercial life, and see if they find it so very easy.
Had I been a bargain-maker, I could have made as good a one with the Opposition as another, and could have justified it better. I hope that in about a week more, I shall be able to send you such intelligence as will put us both out of doubt of what is or ought to be done. Nothing but the worse management on earth in our leaders could have brought things to such an issue.
I think of men, more than one or two, who rented their acre of land by the sea-side, and built their pretty cottage, made their grassplots and trained their roses, and then in unaccustomed idleness grew weary of the whole and sold their place to some keen bargain-maker for a tithe of what it cost them. Why is it that failure in attaining ambitious ends is so painful?
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