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Updated: June 6, 2025
If Laurent would only consent. But now he thought only of fortune-making. "And a return at the end. He is not taking root here. I am. I like the boundless freedom of this new country," said Destournier. "You will marry. There is some demoiselle at home on whom your heart is set. And the old friendship will go for naught. You have been yes, like a brother," and she flushed.
When I left your school, and when I proceeded to India, I did not forget her. But, as you said, men go there to make money so did I. My friends laughed at my boyish fancy they endeavoured to make me ashamed of it. I became smitten with the eastern disease of fortune-making, and, though I did not forget her, I neglected her.
The Japanese had been learning wonderfully well "nearly as well as the Chinese." They were supplanting the small foreign shopkeepers; and various establishments had been compelled to close because of Japanese competition. Even for large firms the era of easy fortune-making was over; the period of hard work was commencing.
I will stay on ranch-making, fortune-making. Mary, I love you! I love you!" There was no staying the flame of his feeling. He seized her hands; he drew her to him. But her hands were cold; they were shivering. "Jack! No, no! It is not in the blood!" she cried in the face of some mocking phantom, her calmness gone and her words rocking with the tumult of emotion. "In the blood, Mary?
But I differ from my countrymen, first, by desiring only what you rich men would call but a small fortune; secondly, in wishing that I may not spend my whole life in that fortune-making. Just see, now, how I am placed. Under ordinary circumstances, I must begin by taking from my father a large slice of an income that will ill spare paring.
It did not astonish him that the financiers and the business men, who were amassing great fortunes in peace, should frown on war, which interrupted their fortune-making; but he laughed when he remembered what they and many other vague pacifists had been solemnly proclaiming.
Owing to a long peace, to a rapid growth of population, and to the daily-increasing difficulty of fortune-making, the class ADVENTURER has of late years, both in this country and the sister kingdom, greatly augmented its numbers. This is evident from the throng of unemployed and aspiring gentlemen ever ready to engage in any undertaking, however desperate and doubtful of success.
"I've said and I was not lying that I came away to shorten the business of fortune-making to buy back an old place we love, my sister and I; but " "Which does she love best, the old place or the young brother?" "Oh, she cares about me no doubt o' that." He smiled the smile of faith. "Has she ... an understanding heart?" "The most I know."
The old knight had devoted an energetic, adventurous, almost an artistic nature to the making of his fortune and the developing of later philanthropies. He had no children. Aaron was devoting a similar nature to anything but fortune-making and philanthropy.
Land, especially in town lots, took on an enormously inflated valuation and the rapid investment in real estate and the rapid transference from buyer to seller was bewildering, while voting bonds for extensive and extravagant improvements in cities-to-be was not the least phase of this brief mania of the fortune-making, fortune-breaking "boom."
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