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"When a cotton-buyer geds down, he stays," was all the explanation he ever gave us. He had unfretfully let adversity cage him for life in the only occupation he knew, while the wife he adored kept him pecuniarily bled to death, without sharing his silent resigna There I go again! Somehow I can't talk about her without seeming unjust and rude.
She loved no other part of botany quite so much as its Latin. "The Baron ought to see that," said Monsieur. He was a man of quiet manners, not over-social, who had once enjoyed a handsome business income, but had early about the time of his marriage been made poor through the partial collapse of the house in Havre whose cotton-buyer he had been, and, in a scant way, still was.
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