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What was the past of this Trevor: pugilist, traveller, and gold-digger; and how had he placed himself in the power of this acid-faced seaman? Why, too, should he faint at an allusion to the half-effaced initials upon his arm, and die of fright when he had a letter from Fordingbridge? Then I remembered that Fordingbridge was in Hampshire, and that this Mr.
She agreed that it was worth recording." TUESDAY. "Letter from solicitor informing me that I have come into 1,000,000 through the will of an Australian gold-digger named Tomkins. On referring to my diary I find that I saved his life two years ago by plunging into the Serpentine. This is very gratifying.
Among the women selected as subjects for this book Sophie Dawes as a personality wins `hands down. Whether she was a criminal or not is a question even now in dispute. Unscrupulous she certainly was, and a good deal of a rogue. That modern American product the `gold-digger' is what she herself would call a `piker' compared with the subject of this chapter.
No? Then let us go into the other room. As they are making company of you and have lighted another fire, we will do as they would have us. Then for the rest of the evening there was some talk about books, and the father, who was greatly given to reading, explained to his son what kind of literature would, as he thought, fit in best with the life of a gold-digger.
Although illegitimate, he was to have had the whole property, of which not a shilling belongs to him; and he has not lost it because it was not his own, but has simply gambled it away among the Jews. What can happen to a man in such a condition better than to turn up as a hunter among the Rocky Mountains or as a gold-digger in Australia?
All I could do was to keep body and soul together, till at last I had to come to the conclusion that I was not cut out for a gold-digger. On my way up to the diggings, I had rested at a station owned by an old gentleman, who seemed to take an interest in me.
"Maybe." "It can't go on, Nash." "Look here, Mr. Drew. I told 'em that I wasn't a gambler but just a gold-digger." The big man could not restrain his smile, though it came like a shadow of mirth rather than the sunlight. "After all, they might as well lose it to you as to someone else." "Sure," grinned Nash, "it keeps it in the family, eh?"
The majority of the writers of fiction who continue to live in the country are women, and possibly not interested in politics; but the chief reason why the romance is seldom written of the Cabinet Minister who started life as a gold-digger or draper's assistant, or of the democratic legislator whose first election was announced to him through a hole in a steam-boiler that he was riveting, is to be found in a belief that it would not be appreciated in the far-off land whither all Australian books must go for the sanction of their existence.
"Ah, monseigneur," cried Lucien, hoping to break thick heads with his golden sceptre, "but ordinary people have neither your intellect nor your charity. No one heeds our sorrows, our toil is unrecognized. The gold-digger working in the mine does not labor as we to wrest metaphors from the heart of the most ungrateful of all languages.
'But the project really was not a bad one, and it might have been of immense service. 'And where did Kurbyev go to? asked Lezhnyov. 'Oh, he is now in Siberia, he has become a gold-digger. And you will see he will make himself a position; he will get on. 'Perhaps; but then you will not be likely to make a position for yourself, it seems. 'Well, that can't be helped!
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