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"This will give me a chance to have my talk with her before dinner," she said; "and afterward she can talk with you." "Very well," returned the judge; "but don't get flighty, Edna. Remember, I'm not a millionaire." Sylvia's face, when she emerged from the house to find her friend waiting alone, was expressive; and Edna answered quite as if she had spoken. "Yes, I sent him away.
For a moment the millionaire bore a striking likeness to old Andrew, at the time when he declared that the devil had gone wrong.
In September, 1783, he possessed a good suit of Sunday clothes, in the English style, and about fifteen English guineas, the total result of two years of unremitting toil and most pinching economy; and here again charity requires the remark that if Astor the millionaire carried the virtue of economy to an extreme, it was Astor the struggling youth in a strange land who learned the value of money.
It is true that occasionally one does hear of a munificent donation having been made by some millionaire, but the public is never deceived by these unusual outbursts of generosity.
"In a nutshell, boys, after two months' secret work, we have accomplished all we planned, and now have Venner sliding our goods upon the market at a fabulous profit. In a single year, barring these infernal Carters, every man of us should be a millionaire." "But why this sudden fear of the Carters?" growled Dalton, impatiently.
"Say, what is this a swimming race?" asked Paul, as he tossed Dick a rope, a like service being performed for Mr. Vardon by Innis. "Looks like it doesn't it?" agreed the young millionaire. "I should have tested that boat before we went out in it," he added, as he clambered up, Grit frisking and barking about him in delight. "Yes, that's where we made the mistake," agreed Mr. Vardon.
Thus, with the struggle for subsistence now keen to a degree which could not have been foretold by the gloomiest pessimist a few years ago; with Parliaments, hitherto safely democratic, threatened with Socialism by the increasing practice of electing artisans and labourers to do the legislative work of their respective classes; the crash of fortunes which never had substantial existence; the pauperising to-day of the paper millionaire of yesterday; the spectacle of worn, old men, after overreaching and ruining themselves, starting pitifully the race of life afresh, a sinister experience their sole advantage over the faltering novice; and that other common spectacle of democratic life, the secure and cultured rich cynically eschewing the active business of government, with these and some social aspects still less agree able to contemplate there is ample subject-matter for any novelist who may have the disposition and ability to carry on the work which Clarke had indicated, but scarcely begun, before he died.
The lawyer says the Board will have to take the Baby, pro tem, or "create an unhappy impression on the minds of the public." "Damn the public!" said Mr. Stink, a dog-breeder member of the Board, thus antecedently plagiarizing an American millionaire. The parish accepts the Baby under protest, and a formal written protest addressed to the Baby, name unknown, is pinned on the potato sack.
He bit off the point of a pencil he had been sharpening with laborious care. "I should probably never have had a chance to marry a millionaire," she concluded reminiscently. "I'm not beautiful enough." With what abominable clearness she understood the game: the marriage-market; the buyer and the price. "I didn't suppose you were like that," he muttered, after what seemed a long silence.
He was going at last to claim that gold-mine he had come so far to find. This was the decisive moment of his life. At the thought he straightened up, and passed Maudie. She gave him a single sidelong look, unfriendly, even fierce. That was because he could run like sixty, and keep it up. "When I'm a millionaire I shall always remember that I'm rich because I won the race."
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