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Updated: June 10, 2025
My mother looked earnestly and wistfully at her husband. Never before had he betrayed so strong an interest in her happiness, and had it not, alas! been too late, this glimmering of kindness might have lighted the matrimonial torch into a brighter flame than had ever yet glowed upon the past. "Mr. Goldencalf, we have an only son "
The divine was a gentleman, and he looked grave at this speech, though, meeting the anxious eyes of my mother, his own lost their displeasure in a glance of reassurance and pity. "The charges of his education will be easily settled, Mr. Goldencalf," added my mother; "but the Doctor has consented with difficulty to take the responsibility of my poor babe, and that only under two conditions."
In the mean time, I will endeavor to prepare myself to be the companion of a philanthropist by practising on thy theory, and, by expanding my own affections, render myself worthy to be the wife of one who has so large a stake in society, and who loves so many and so truly. "Thine imitator and friend, "Without change, "To Sir JOHN GOLDENCALF, Bart.
"You are said to have received a much larger sum than that with the late Mrs. Goldencalf," the divine observed, not without reproof in his voice. "Ah, dear sir, I need not tell you what vulgar rumor is but I shall not undermine my own credit; and we will change the subject. My object, Dr. Etherington, was merely to do justice.
But this accursed revolution among our neighbors the French has quite unsettled opinions, and, alas! property is in perpetual danger!" "Sorry am I to say, I feel it to be so in every nerve of my body, Sir Joseph." "We must unite and defend ourselves, Mr. Goldencalf, else both you and I, men warm enough and substantial enough at present, will be in the ditch.
You should remember, my dear fellow, that a mere title, or a profession, is not the criterion of true greatness; but that the prodigy of a village may be a very common monikin in town." "Poh-poh" interrupted Lord Chatterino, "thou art ever for refining, Hightail Sir John Goldencalf is a very respectable person in the island of a a a what do you call that said island of yours, Goldencalf? a a "
"Sir, monikin prudence never lays the foundation-stone at the summit; it seeks the base of the edifice; and as contributions are the walls of society, we commence with the bottom. When you shall know us better, Sir John Goldencalf, you will begin to comprehend the beauty and benevolence of the entire monikin economy."
Property, sir, is in danger, and property is the only true basis of society." "I am sure, Sir Joseph, I never could see the smallest use in birth." "It is of no use but to beget pensioners, Mr. Goldencalf. Now with property it is a different thing money is the parent of money, and by money a state becomes powerful and prosperous.
The final words were uttered with a shout. They were the last that ever came from the lips of Thomas Goldencalf. The noise brought in the attendants, who found him dead. I ordered the room to be cleared as soon as the melancholy truth was fairly established, and remained several minutes alone with the body. The countenance was set in death.
"Yes, but that COULD NOT BE" interrupted Miss-Mrs. Norton, the governess. "For Sir Harry Griffin is very difficult about his associates, and you know, my dear, that Mr. Goldencalf, though a very respectable young man himself, could not expect one of the oldest baronets of the county to go out of his way to invite the son of a stock-jobber to be present at a fete given to his own heir."
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