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'It is certainly inadequate, said Mac-Morlan, mistaking his meaning, 'but the circumstances Mr. Sampson waved his hand impatiently. 'It is not the lucre, it is not the lucre; but that I, that have ate of her father's loaf, and drank of his cup, for twenty years and more to think that I am going to leave her, and to leave her in distress and dolour! No, Miss Lucy, you need never think it!
He would move along in his superb manner, looking right over the heads of the congregation, and disdaining to cast a glance at the "filthy lucre" that was being heaped up in the box which from obedience he carried. What were silver and gold, let alone the cheap paper currency of the times, to him, who had given up wealth and princely rank to become a religious!
But you, Olympius, you who are the very soul of the revulsion we hope for, you must not be present at the festival. Indeed, sheltered as you are under Porphyrius' roof, there is a price on your head, and this house swarms with slaves, who all know you; if one of them, tempted by filthy lucre..." "They will not betray me," smiled the philosopher.
He gave Ben the paper, and whispered, "Be off before he changes his mind." "You'll hear of an accident in the mine before the day is over," said Burnley, and he went off without a grain of remorse under the double stimulus of revenge and lucre. "He'll do it," cried Monckton, triumphantly, "and Hope will end his days in the Bartley mine."
"Nay, I see it right well," cried Ann eagerly, "I knew it when I first read the letter. But that is the very point! Must not a lover who can barter away his love for filthy lucre be base indeed? If when he ceased to be true he had likewise ceased to love, if the fickle Fortunatus had wearied of his sweetheart then I could far more easily forgive."
Give me one good reason for her folly, and I will forgive her do anything for her! anything but let her have the rascal! That I WILL NOT! Take for your son-in-law an ape that loathes your money, calls it filthy lucre and means it! Not if I can help it! Don't let me see her! I shall come to hate her! and that I would rather not; a man must love and cherish his own flesh!
Some of them ask themselves if they have not got on the wrong track: if the imaginary evil being, that was supposed to be tempted exclusively by a bait of lucre or wages, really exists. This heresy penetrates even into universities; it is found in books of orthodox economy.
The present beliefs of the Gold Coast are kept up by organised priesthoods as 'lucrative business. Where there is no lucre and no priesthood, as among more backward races, this kind of business cannot be done. On the Gold Coast men can only approach gods through priests. This is degeneration.
Push on, your reverence; you have the divil and the parson against you, for the one's drivin' on the other." "Cross the corner of the Barny Mother's meadow, Mr. Lucre, and wheel in at the garden ditch; your horse can do it, although you ride the heaviest weight. Lay on him, sir, and think of Protestant Ascendancy. King William against Popery and wooden shoes; hurra!"
Having said which he trotted up to the hearth-rug, in which, before Lucre had time even to speak, by a wipe from each foot, he left two immense streaks of mud, which we guess took some hard scrubbing to remove. "Now, your honor, I hope I'll do." Lucre saw it was useless to remonstrate with him, and said, with more temper than could be expected "Man, what's your business?"
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